ARTIST STATEMENT My practice is born from questioning, from the need for truths and from a search to transfer our subconscious developments into conscious representations in which the viewer can reflect on and openly interpret them from their own experiences. Every piece I work on comes from deep explorations of my psyche and its relationships with contemporary society. In this process, I start by doing rough and randomly texturized underpaintings led by the momentum of creation, almost like an automatic writing exercise. With this, a meditative process of contemplation of these Rorschach-type images begins and from there the final composition emerges, surrendering myself to pure inspiration and the desire to interpret them, allowing my hands and eyes to act as translators of a language. essential, the language of the subconscious. I am particularly interested in topics related to the social fabric and its behaviors, addressing matters of identity, the self, human ancestry and how they are linked to faith, fears and the psychological responses we have to face a biased and excessively controlled world, portrayed from a somewhat stark but redemptive perspective that also shows the timelessness of these issues. I focus on body/being archetypical representations for its power of transmission and universal identification. Working with the human figure, faces and expressions as a primal form of association has allowed me to address collective issues through the individual and by that, express my personal concerns about the world. Formally, I propose an expressionist-neo figurative aesthetic, taking elements of portraiture and abstract painting to work on the border of both worlds. In this way, gesturality in brush strokes, texture and color become meaning-builders rather than simply complementing a representation of reality. Currently, I am exploring the boundaries of beauty as a concept and how “ugly paintings” can portray the current state of the world.