Chicadania

“[Portraying children behind the mask] is a paradox. The look of a child is pure, authentic, free. The mask is the opposite, it conceals your identity, and hides your true being. My portraits are about revealing our sight and finding our way to ourselves.”
–Chicadania

Chicadania is a contemporary artist that comes from the Art School. Most of her artistic life has been dedicated to sculpture. However, having married a Spanish urban artist, she got to know the street art world from the inside. In 2017 she was invited to the first edition of the Distrito Graffiti Festival, then called Mural City in Bogotá. For the first time she launched herself to paint in large format and she was surprised to see what she was capable of. After so many years, the time had come to explore this new language. That is how Chicadania came to muralism to paint portraits of her children, Ían and Marc. Thinking of giving a more original and personal meaning to her murals, she decided to make up her children and then portray them. She paints their faces and photographs them playing with their superhero pajamas or simply interacting. Children are a direct reference for anyone, we have all been children and invented magic universes with any object no matter how simple it was. Ian and Marc have been growing up and their murals are spread around the world reflecting that thread of life.