Iván Tovar is an artist whose practice unfolds through the interplay of image, language, and conceptual structures, treating the camera as an instrument for thinking rather than representation alone. His work engages with the instability of meaning, constructing and deconstructing systems of images that question how subjectivity, fiction, and cultural narratives are produced. Moving between series, fragments, and ongoing inquiries, his projects resist closure, instead operating as evolving constellations shaped by repetition, displacement, and reinterpretation.

Central to his approach is an interest in how images function as sites of tension between the symbolic and the real, where meaning is never fixed but continuously negotiated. Drawing from psychoanalytic thought—particularly the notion of the sinthome as a singular structure that knots together subjectivity—Tovar’s work explores the ways in which artistic practice can act as both a framework and a rupture within systems of representation.