This photo series is representational of Mexican culture merging with Canadian landscape, Jasso explores the isolated, frigid, yet stunning scenes of the Canadian winters. The process is always challenging due to the windy and cold winter conditions. Jasso finds fascinating to bring the Magic Realism influences from his early age, full of creatures and characters that can only live in the imagination, and overlapping with these beautiful scenes from the North, a clash that creates a very enjoyable surreal scenery for the viewer.
This series of images are digital photomontage that explore Jasso’s experiences of complex subject matters, such as death, sexuality, and religion; ideas that created great conflict to the artist at his early age. The artist expresses that he learned to see the beauty during the struggling times, going through early depression at his childhood, he decided to embrace his reality and he found in the arts the most beautiful way to connect with the universe. In the series we can see the complexity and the conflicting interactions of the elements, using romantic elements learned when Jasso studied poetry at his young age, and the used of symbolism.
This series of photographs captures the male body, resembling classical marble sculptures. It explore the idea of queer gaze in relation of how the body is perceived by the expectation. Jasso emphasizes male sexuality and beauty through depiction of marble like nude body.
Jasso uses portraiture to generate statements that are personal interest. Sometimes the artist is trying to create awareness in subjects such as the cruel treatment of immigrants in the United States, the unsustainable yet addictive relationship between man and fossil fuels, or the fragile relationship between man and Earth, and the colonial culture that impacts minorities, gender, race, and creates segregation.
This is a series of humorous portraits, playing with some postmodernist ideas such as modern immigration, the excessive use of technology and how this affects identity. Jasso was inspired by Rene Magritte and Edgar Alan Poe to create some of these works.
I grew up in a very diverse but also subtle society as most of latin-american people. In Mexico we call ourselves Mestizos, which means a mix of white and indigenous. Although the white has vanished when it comes to our perception of feeling connected with, perhaps because the way that our native cultures where almost exterminated and how the conquest evolved, most of us have a stronger connection with our first roots from the many indigenous cultures, like Aztecas, Mexicas, Toltecas, etc. Moving to Canada gave me the great surprise of learning from the beautiful resilient tribes in these beautiful lands, I immediately found a connection to my own culture. As a visual artist for this series I wanted to explore the subtle but rich colours of this amazing culture, I do it with humility, trying to create and support the so needed conversation that creates more visibility, awareness and perhaps justice to Canadian indigenous cultures. This series is not only inspired by the connection I find with my own culture, but also as my appreciation these native lands for allowing to immigrate and establish myself as a human been.
This series honours the exquisite idea of genderless beauty. The clash between masculinity in a delicate manner, embracing the freedoms of the queer gaze with a different perspective.
