PORTFOLIO
My work focuses on the exploration of images showing and explaining the functioning of alleged worlds existing beyond our immediate perception. Images coming from fields such as science, pseudoscience, esotericism and religion, which have deeply influenced our perception and understanding of reality.
I use different appropriation and intervention systems in order to check and transform these visual ‘evidences’ on a pictorial basis. In this process, painting dialogues with other art forms such as printmaking, photography, video, sculpture and installation. These interdisciplinary strategies and mixed media experimentation depend on the context of each image and the physical possibilities of the material in which it takes form.
I intuitively deconstruct these preexistent images in order to create new textures, colours and forms that suggest certain “proto-beings” and “proto-landscapes” which seem to emerge in the midst of a (de)formation process.
Altogether, my painting practice is a way to deal with this kind of imagery and seeks to somehow bring closer those inaccessible and invisible dimensions. This, by producing alternative visual experiences, generating further relationships with such visual platforms and revealing new potential structures contained in them.
Overall, my work links multiple elements coming from figuration and abstraction, sci-fi and mythology, faith and science, spiritual experiences and lab experimentation, rituality and virtuality, fiction and reality.
Selected Images
Open-Pit Extraction of Raw Materials
This series of works is based on printed images of the deep universe taken by the Hubble Telescope on which I develop some procedures to remove the ink and paper layers composing them. Creasing, folding, sanding, dissolving and burning are some of these attempts to go deeper within the surface.
The shape of each platform corresponds to the floor area of the room in which each image has been transformed or the gap inside the wood frames containing some of the pieces. Thus, these works gather different kinds of spaces, from the immeasurable infinite to the architectural and pictorial space.
This transformative process questions the finite deepness of something representing the idea of the infinite; the manipulation of a reality filtered by time, space, machines and humanity; the creation emerging from destruction and vice versa; the birth of diverse worlds and dimensions from the same elements; and the ongoing mutation of the world, metaphorically and physically embodied in these images.