“I make sculptures and paintings. I don’t usually think about my practice as separate projects but more like an endless drift. I started considering aspects as the magic of painting to generate illusion, or the canvas as a window to create or contemplate new realities, but kept on adding themes and ideas as pieces of a puzzle to it.

 

I first focussed on painting clothes, patterns, as a way to test the capability of painting to create the illusion of volume on a bidimensional field, then researching about the idea of clothing as a second skin, a shield, a mask or cover we wear to present or protect ourselves. Thinking about this aspect, I added the notion of space, comparing our behaviours to those from animals and plants, I thought how important our surroundings are in the choice of what we wear.

 

When i first started making models or sculptures as subject to paint, I began to think about the materials or shapes as metaphors of the qualities i wanted to give to the characters. They were mostly abstract, and not human shaped, but represented different personalities or moods to me. I then painted backgrounds, on paper or canvas, mostly nature and landscapes, places where i could place those models and let them play their role, tell the story.

Last year i worked on a specific figure, an abstract mannequin, with no face. This allowed me to present a human character everybody could relate to. Then I created different covers for it, so I could dress and undress the figure, depending on the needs.

 

As a result of this endless drift of interests and ideas, images jump from landscapes or space representations, to static figures and abstract closeups included in them. Sometimes they are shields made out of wool, fluffy and warm, plant shaped juicy objects as roles, characters on fire, dressed or covered, by water, or floating, flowering, bubbles, islands, mountains, volcanoes and planets. They all take part in the storytelling through the time. They were, or needed to be but didn’t, so took their place. Painting as a need to configurate a new world, or as a reminder that others are possible.”