About

I’m fascinated with how stories and pictures confront us with slices of life and portray a world more real than what we perceive as reality. They capture the visible and the invisible, crystallizing the truth, regardless of all the fluctuations, alterations, and pretend changes — brought by the chaos of everyday life, society, and our minds — that make it difficult to pierce through all the masks and veils. Through stories, paintings on textiles, and other artistic experiments, I strive to render visible and audible otherwise unseen affairs — poetically and carefully looking at how human life is interwoven elemental entities, with the non-human and the mythical. My paintings mostly use natural pigments, or inks made by me, and the textiles are dyed by hand using natural dyes. Several of the dyes and pigments are foraged, picked, and gathered by me, others I purchase from ethical sources — in terms of both environment and fair trade —, I believe in making things politically, from the very beginning.

My works defend that nature is more than a source of resources to be consumed by mankind and that it isn’t something separate from humans and deployed of spirit. I’m interested in creating forms and compositions that embrace temporalities, ontologies, and epistemologies outside normative, colonial, capitalist, and phallocentric thinking and modes of living. My artworks celebrate the different realms of life, recognizing the agency and intelligence in all beings or non-beings, whether these are rocks, ghosts, rivers, stars, plants, or animals.

Several characters in my practice are (the ghosts of) animals and plants, they aren’t metaphors for humans nor do I personify them, I try to listen to their intelligence, sensibility, and corporeality. They come into being from a conversation between them, me, and the matter that sustains and shapes the works.