Paradise Aliens is a series of monumental paintings by Alonso Galue that traverse the entangled terrains of migration, climate crisis, and post-colonial mythology. Rendered in thick, visceral layers of acrylic, these works conjure a mytho-poetic world in which the boundaries between the ancestral and the futuristic, the sacred and the absurd, collapse into one another.

Inspired by Latin American visual syncretism, particularly the religious and folkloric traditions encoded in masks and ceremonial objects. Galue constructs fractured landscapes inhabited by surveilled humans, frustrated deities, muddy rainbows, and drones mistaken for birds. Each painting serves as a psychic cartography of displacement and transformation, where the familiar and the foreign merge in unsettling yet luminous ways.

These are not static mythologies but fluid allegories: Chicago’s Blue Line train might pass through a fever dream version of Canaima; an iguana imagines itself a chameleon; and the ancient Andean prophecy of the Condor and the Eagle uniting is reimagined as an atomic ballet , set in motion when oil is extracted from a sacred lake.

At the heart of the series is a cosmology of crisis and resistance. In Galue’s vision, the primordial laugh that once set the universe in motion still echoes in today’s fractured world - reminding us of our cosmic smallness while confronting us with our environmental and spiritual responsibilities.

Paradise Aliens is not just a narrative of loss. It is an invitation to see the post-colonial body - human, animal, divine, and territorial - as a contested site of memory and prophecy. Galue’s work suggests that in the ruins of exploitation and globalization, there still exists the possibility of myth, laughter, and radical reimagining