The work of Jorge Julia?n Aristiza?bal is difficult to classify due to its deliberate technical and stylistic diversity. The artist has affirmed that “he avoids cultivating a style or a definite form of expression at any cost,” since, for him, reproducing a style, whatever that might be, would mean cheating life itself, which is in constant change. Perhaps the only constant in his work is his insistence on drawing, which has had a dominant role in the Colombian art world of the past decade. Aristizábal is interested in creating images that awaken the language of the unconscious and that not only contain “ideas” but that can also challenge and dispute those very same ideas. His figurativism has instrumentally served to question the values of what he describes as a hypocritical society. Aristizábal’s work demonstrates the double standards that pervade contemporary Colombian society; from the prejudices towards “private” decisions on sexuality and religious filiation, to public concern over corruption and the political environment in which the artist exists.