CB Hoyo writes the way people think when no one is watching. Working across painting, text and installation, the Havana-born, self-taught artist has built a practice that cuts through the polished emptiness of digital culture with something more immediate, unstable and human. His handwritten phrases feel less like declarations than exposed nerves.

In this interview, Hoyo reflects on boredom, performance, authorship and the increasingly blurry line between the real and the artificial. What emerges is a voice deeply attuned to the absurdities of contemporary life — the pressure to narrate everything, the demand for speed, the seduction of surfaces. For Hoyo, writing is practice of sitting with friction and a refusal to smooth things over.

ARTWORK BY CB HOYO 
INTERVIEW BY MERVE ARKUNLAR