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///STATEMENT
The alteration, the disruption of structures in urban spaces holds a preponderant place in my artistic practice. I try to establish a metaphorical reading/view of instability, doubt, questioning a so-called normal order. Urban landscapes are observed and used as a starting point to these projections, proposing another perception of space in a dynamic or silent way.
Drawing, monotype, collage, painting and objects are the tools I use. Large works, where perspective and location is important, give the viewer the opportunity to immerse in a particular environment. Small, intimate drawings and studies are necessary components underlining and establishing a two-way link. Through the use of paper on which I draw, print, glue, paint, a pattern emerges that unfolds and evolves over time - like a text that grows richer with new data. These two-dimensional works end up taking shape in space as well becoming objects: 3D forms that echo them.
Shocks, powerful forces reshape an urban environment and interfere with a known reality. They create weakened urban areas slipping, moving, fragmenting and overlapping. Pieces are released, becoming unusual constructions: a new repertoire of elements emerge, mixing architectural, mineral, organic and geometric components/factors. They drift away and change state, settling elsewhere, becoming autonomous, forming a new horizon. A tenuous waterline. Spatial elements begin to float in space, suggesting a form of duality: up side down, immersed lands that underline the ephemeral, the constant reshaping of the world. They may develop a propensity to reconnect, to associate, to build a new state. A history unfolds time after time bringing in new suggestions.