STATEMENT

My artistic journey reveals a lifelong effort to map down the boundaries between guilt and innocence, trying to outline the exact measure of both personal and collective responsibility in the face of violence.

 

The creatures that populate my work float in a blank space, sterile and alien. They seem suspended in an emotional purgatory from where they yearn for something that does not come or mourn for something long gone. Their incompleteness unveils a state of extreme inadequacy and disagreement.

 

Inspired by science fiction, folk tales, and a voyeuristic sensationalism predominant in our culture, I examine different manifestations of life, as it intersects with the human body. I address issues related to human representation, monstrosity, hybridization, and artificial life in times of crisis, when the body itself, becomes catastrophic.

 

I explore a diverse set of materials and techniques that together present a contrast in scale, texture and sensibility to create an experience that provokes a constant ambivalence between fascination and repulsion. My goal is to produce a dangerous object that is definitely familiar and too close for comfort, intertwined with that other thing that is strange and unknown.