Raul Balai a.k.a. el bastardo, is an Amsterdam based artist (1980), designer, exhibition maker, curator, and artist. From a fascination with historiography and its scant attention to diversity, he creates work about cultural exchanges, hybridizations, and collisions. He uses a number of different styles, genres, to expose and explore what remains at stake within the history of diversities. He is looking at each topic and story and finds appropriate form. Constantly refining his visual and conceptual vocabulary that emerges through points of intersection between painting, installations, sculptures, graffiti, (graphic) design, illustration, video and photography.