STATEMENT OF WORK

In my practice I think about the ceaseless confrontation between the intimate and the alien, exploring paths that link the ugly, the clumsy and the ordinary through a treatment of these elements as if they would be precious but without subordinating them to identification.

Generally my work focuses in painting and drawing as main mediums, but I also explore other mediums such as photography, printmaking, installation, performance and sculpture.

What I intend through the work is to come closer to what for me seems hostile, uncomfortable, overwhelming and mysterious, with no previous resolution of the outcome, giving the material itself the chance to delve into its own movement and speak its own language. Amorphous figures that immediately remind of bodies, limbs or even basic biological beings are frequently present in my work and there’s an unidentifiable environment that grows and moves in an eerie static way around these figures endowing them with distorted humanity, as if they would be trying to reach tangibility, but always falling into the bottomless pit of ambiguity, turning it difficult to establish accurate meanings for the represented figure and opening the possibility of an encounter with known and unknown territories that emerge from a visceral response to the awareness of the body in its undetermined and unfixed role in the domestic and the social space, leading to a permanent mutation of oneself and any living creature in relation to its environment.

Relations or dualities that I'm interested in are: the wild and the civilized; exposing and hiding; desire and disgust; pleasure and pain; visceral and rational, constricted and open ended; exuberancy and austerity, among others.