MILA USECHE – BOOOOOOOM! – Create *inspiring *community *art*design *music *movie *photo*project
Featured works by artist Mila Useche. Born in Bogota, Colombia, currently located in Ehime, Japan, USECHE completed the BFA at Berliner Technische Kunthochshule in Berlin, Germany. Her work blends popular inspired visuals, personal stories, Catholic portraits, animated cartoons and pre-Colombian myths. She also explores the themes of identity, collective nostalgia and personal mythology. Useche’s approach involves guiding her young self-intuitive energy. In this way, her work is the result of a competitive version of the conversation. What appears is something similar to self-portraits or “Aura-Selfies”:
“I’m attracted to how painting, a slow, material act, can counter the speed and satisfaction of the post-internet world and provide a comfortable physical weight, a gentle cage to embrace the uncapturable nature of my Self. I often apply acrylics onto canvas in a spontaneous way. First, I aim for unrefined and ambiguous shapes, so I can later move on to more complex rendering methods to slowly discover these avatar-like characters you see reappearing in my work.”
Mila Useche participated in our 2025 Boooooom Art & Photo Book Award and was included in our shortlist. Click here to view our current and upcoming calls!
