Meet the Winner of Jury’s Choice Award from WWK’s Competition 2016
By Bork S. Nerdrum

The World Wide Kitsch Competition 2016 included many well-crafted paintings and out of Sixty-nine contestants the jury selected Boris Correas’s work “A Woman in the Shadows” for the first prize.

Borris Correa (b. 1981) resides in Santiago, Chile and calls himself a contemporary realist painter. We seized the opportunity to interview the painter following his 1st prize victory in our annual competition:

Can you tell us a little bit about the painting “A Woman in the Shadows”?

BC: I wanted to make a painting that displayed loneliness and darkness – metaphorically speaking. The subject is in that sense a shadow and the birth of light. All form of life comes from darkness.

A Woman In The Shadows by Boris Correa

Who has inspired your work?

BC: When I was younger I held Rembrandt and Nerdrum to be the greatest among painters. They have taught me the importance of light. Then I fell in love with Munch and Goya. The latter’s work are full of expresion and predominantly convey the feeling of despair.
But not only painters have inspired me. I could also mention Tarkovsky – Bergman – Dostoyevsky – Gustav Meyrink – Strindberg – Kafka – Borges and the list goes on.

How would you describe your goal in three words?

BC: Nothing – just paint.

Borris Correa: “La Confusion”

There is a big movement of photo realism in the country you live in – is that what you are aiming at in your work?

BC: Not at all. I use photographs as a reference in my painting but I am always fighting against photo-realism. It is important to
see the brushwork – I love stained paintings.

What do you think about the re-appropriation of kitsch as an alternative to “art”?

BC: I think it is perfect. The stablishment must be pulverized.

Borris Correa: “La Mujer Pájaro”