ARTIST STATEMENT My practice is born from questioning, the need for truths and a search to translate my subconscious thought process into conscious representations. Every piece I work on comes from deep explorations of my psyche and its relationships with contemporary society. In this process, I start by making randomly texturized under paintings, working from automatism. This functions as a trigger for a process of pareidolia contemplation from which the visual composition emerges, surrendering myself to pure inspiration and the desire to interpret and organize this chaotic disposition of strokes and stains, allowing my hands and eyes to act as translators of this essential language. I am interested in how I am subconsciously affected by issues related to the social fabric and its behaviors, addressing questions of identity, the self, human ancestry and how they link to faith, fears, politics and the psychological responses we have to face a biased and excessively controlled world. 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 draw inspiration from expressionism, surrealism, baroque portraiture and abstract painting to construct a hybrid visual language that can depict worlds in which everyday reality meets my subconscious desires. In this way, gestural brushstrokes, texture and color become constructors of meaning rather than merely supplementing a representation of reality. Currently, I am exploring the limits of beauty as a concept and how "ugly paintings" represent the current situation of the world and my country.