Stefany Layton Cuervo

Colombia

Stefany Layton Cuervo is a visual artist trained in painting, drawing, and art history whose practice has progressively expanded into digital and immersive media. Her work investigates the idea of expanded painting, in which the pictorial image moves beyond the physical canvas into computational and virtual environments. After years working with material painting, she began translating her visual language into generative systems using tools such as TouchDesigner, later extending this research into virtual reality, where bodily perception and spatial immersion became integral to her creative process.

Within this trajectory, Stefany explores the dialogue between digital and physical environments as a direct means of representing landscape. Her project Metamorphosis of the Landscape examines the circulation between virtual and material spaces, drawing on the notion of the ideal landscape historically constructed by Renaissance painters within the studio before being translated into painting. Across her practice, digital environments are approached as evolving entities capable of transformation and renewal, fostering an ongoing exchange between physical and virtual spaces. Through continued experimentation with virtual reality and generative processes, she develops landscape as a speculative and continually shifting field shaped by perception, limits, and spatial experience.


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The garden of excess

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This work stems from a digital reinterpretation of Jan van Huysum's floral still lifes, not as a direct quotation, but as a Baroque structure reconstructed with contemporary visual materials.

The composition was created in a virtual reality painting environment, where each brushstroke is built from hundreds of images sourced from digital platforms, used as a color palette and visual material. These images do not appear literally, but rather transform and integrate into a dense and ever-changing surface.

The result is a still life in motion that floats against a dark background, where the image unfolds in layers, rhythms, and textures. In this process, the continuous flow of contemporary images becomes form, color, and space.

The work does not represent a landscape, but rather constructs one from the circulation of images.

We no longer paint flowers,
we paint with flows of images.

technique

3d

format

portrait

duration

01:33

year

2026

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