Designer, Art Director

Artist

Aaron Rinas is an artist and designer working and living in Toronto, Canada.

Cristian's work is a dialogue between photography, graphic design, and printed matter. Born in Santiago in 1976, based in Toronto, Canada. His latest limited edition, self-published book "Other Voices" was recently selected to be exhibited at the Benaki Museum, in Greece, as part of the Athens Photo Festival 2019. His first book “A Way to Disconnect and Connect” was published by Daga Editions in 2017. Cristian's work has been shown in exhibitions and publications internationally. He was recently invited to direct a PhotoBook workshop at VU Photo, in Québec City (Canada), and write an essay about Sergio Larrain’s photographic work for the book 100x100 curated by Patricio Pozo (Chile). Currently, Cristian splits his time working independently on personal art projects, graphic design, and photographic assignments. Since 2016, he has collaborated as Art Director for the architecture publication Azure Magazine and teaches in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University in Toronto.

My work is an ongoing exploration across media, ranges from performance, drawing, painting, and photography. In my artistic practice, I contemplate about the role of materials,  various media, the body, and performative elements in the process of mark making gestures. I am interested in expressing ideas about how the notion of identity, displacement, and memory are held in the body.  I develop performative methods that break down boundaries between various disciplines. Through Inter-media performative practice, I incorporate the body as a material, object, and subject. I utilize the camera as a tool to capture and record my studio and staged performances, as well as activating time, space and light with body movement.
  I'm interested in the complexity of performative documentation, and the potential of both traditional and new advanced media in these representations.