CARLOS BELLIDO
Name: Carlos Bellido
Age: 36
Birthplace: Spain
Home: London, Uk
Discipline: Painting and Filmmaking
Portrait of Sandro Tsikoridze, 2025, oil on Canvas
What are the main topics you deal with in your practice?
I explore narrative storytelling through the practices of film, video, photography, and painting. Guided by personal curiosity and self-expression, my work engages with figurative representations. These ideas emerge through depictions of the mundane, captured in a spontaneous, unfiltered way that embraces the rawness of the ordinary.
Who are the subjects of your works?
The subjects are not always predetermined; they evolve organically, shifting from spontaneous street scenes to carefully composed studio portraits. Often, they are friends, new acquaintances, or individuals whose presence and posture can embody the narrative I imagine within a particular work.
How do you define your artistic research?
Memory is central to my process. When I focus on individual figures, I’m not only interested in what they have or show, but also in what you can’t directly see. This, for me, opens many questions in regards to the characters I study and portray. It creates a sense of absence and vulnerability.
I try to capture people in moments of searching, looking for the meaning and experiences of everyday life, represented suspended in bold colour. The emotions that come through making these works or simply viewing them can be complex, sometimes hard to define, and this is something that keeps repeating across my practice.
In your view, what does being an artist mean in today’s world?
An exchange or direct conversation between the spectacle and spectator.
A testimony.
What remains timeless in your eyes?
Colour.
Story on Orange Background, 2025, oil on Canvas
Three Figures and a Game, 2025, oil on Canvas
Interview by Martin Onufrowicz