Mila Useche

GERMAN-COLOMBIAN B.1993

MILA USECHE

Mila Useche was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1993. In 2013 she immigrated to Berlin,Germany, where, after completing a B.F.A. at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule,she spent seven years working as a visual development artist and character designer for companies such as Disney, Netflix, Warner Brothers and Nickelodeon. More recently, she has been focusing entirely on developing a personal visual language through painting. Mila immigrated again in 2024, establishing her studio practice in Ehime, Japan.

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identity and self- expression in our time.Influenced by the Japanese Superflat movement, Colombian precolonial arts, current world events, and my experience working in animation, I blend pop-inspired visuals with personal narratives, often drawing on symbolism from Catholicism, Japanese animation and precolombian mythologies. All aspects present in my formative years in Colombia.

In my work I apply acrylics onto canvas in a free, almost childlike quality, using unrefined shapes alongside more complex rendering methods to develop avatars that encapsulate different modules of my identity. This approach allows me to overlap my younger self's Intuitive energy with my present self's logical thought process, allowing collaboration between these two contradictory and sometimes conflicting identities on the canvas.