Angel
Borges

My name is Angel Borges (born in 1990), I am a Venezuelan artist. I live since 2016 in Europe, first in Germany (Berlin and Munich), then in Lisbon, Portugal, where I am currently living.

In 2020, I faced for the first time my clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety due to the mourning for the death of my maternal grandmother in Venezuela and the end of 9 years of a love relationship; a path that allows me to find again my artistic side, as I used to draw since I was a child, but that I have left aside during in my adult stage.

In Berlin, during my psychotherapy sessions, I decided to take a black pen and a white notebook to capture my feelings and find a little light within a path that was so dark at that time.

I arrived in Lisbon in 2021, and the process of self-knowledge, initiated by myself in 2020, led me to start painting in 2022 and to display my collections publically, which I continue to this day with no academic background in art and/or art studies, just with the intuition of all the elements that compound me as person. I am a diverse artist as I am painter, I am a writer, and I am a performer.

Art itself is for me the tool that helped me and helps me to overcome dark moments, but above all now with a lot more light.

Through my works it can be perceived an abstract concept as my own feelings, the intention to expose that infinite and raw complexity of my own conscious and subconscious processes, by embedding a layer of me in each of my works.

In some of my works I play with flourescent pigments, allowing me to give the painting two different and ambiguous sides. Giving each painting a more solid and powerful personality.