John Paul Fauves is a visual artist who lives and works in San José, Costa Rica. In his paintings he engages questions of identity as they relate to art history as well as our everyday interactions with mainstream culture and social media. Greatly inspired by modernist masters as wellas pop-artists, Fauves mixes fragments of different iconic images in vividand colourful compositions. Of his experimental and high eclectic style, he says, “art is an expression from the soul, and the soul is somethinglimitless...

Sergey worked as CEO of a construction company. He was jealous that everything was going so well in his life: a great job, a high position, a salary of 300,000 per month, a happy family, a beautiful wife and a smart daughter...