«Art is an essence, a centre. (…)
My life and art have not been separated. They have been together» [1]
I have primarily worked from painting to expand it to other languages, being interested in the creation of surfaces, textures and colours to communicate my thoughts/feelings/sensations, and explore limits in painting, by using different languages to question space and abstraction. In order to achieve this goal, I have been transferring two-dimensional visual spaces to three-dimensional ones as a contemporary way to understand painting, where it is simply colour and material, and to create pictorial installations through colour interactions.
In spite of the different appearances among the projects, there are some similarities, like small modules that create a big series, researching the relationship between a part and the whole, visual textures that produce a strong organic sensation, images that evoke nature or its abstraction, and using non-traditional and recycled materials for creating artworks.
Throughout the years, I have been attracted to the ordinary materials around me, as objet trouvé (recycled, industrial and plastic ones), which have become especially significant to me because of their particular characteristics and connotations. I have tended to collect them as valuable belongings; nevertheless, they could be absolutely nothing… but I have used their physicality, colour and implicit stories in different contexts to stimulate sensations.
I am interested in converting my life experiences into a practice to embody them, in order to invite the viewer to make connections with their own sensations. As the quotation above indicates, my work as an artist has also been a consequence of my life.
[1] Hesse, in Artforum (May 1970), quoted in Lucy Lippard, Eva Hesse, (New York: New York University Press, 1976), 5.