Evocations in Red II

Katerine Escobar returns with another installment of Evocations in Red

The woman represented as a princess or a fragile being in need of rescue is a recurring concept in traditional stories and children's tales. Evocations in Red II is a collection that challenges this notion by deconstructing the essence of purity and innocence of the female characters in these stories, instead establishing versions of them that are closer to reality. In these drawings, the girls appear unhappy, less self-sacrificing and more rebellious, willing to face a world that is far from perfect and rarely has a happy ending.

Katerine Escobar is a Colombian digital artist originally from Medellin, who studied fine arts at Colombian National University. All of her digital work is created on an iPad, using illustration software that has an extensive number of graphite pencil options. These digital pencils offer super realistic, meticulous strokes. The result of this approach is a natively digital work that has the appearance of a realistic drawing, with a hyper realistic finish.

In her work, she collects elements and symbols that reveal phenomena such as religion, politics and education. With these elements, she tries to generate contrast or duality, comparing or confronting the natural and the artificial, the sublime and the abominable, the past and the present. Much of her work, including the vivid red color often prominently featured, represents manifestations of her life experience growing up in Colombia.