About me
When I decided to infiltrate the world of art, I thought to myself “I really want to express philosophy practically, visually, palpably”, being, back then, a philosophy enthusiast. As time went by, I began being absorbed by experimenting with different mediums, in my attempts to represent the uncanny nature of the liminal fictions we construct in our lives, in the communities we are taking part of, the spaces we inhabit and the approach we have on life-defining subjects or moments. I decided to extract symbols of personal and collective value from the places I documented. I reconstructed visual scenes that have been “implanted” in my mind, as part of the collective memory, imaginary and ideology, looking at the emotional slips and deviations attributed to them. I triangulated my research on aesthetics, philosophy and social studies, making an attempt to map something that exists on the margins of language, space, myth and nature. So, in theory, in this universe of feelings, visual representations and three-dimensionality, I am a performer of the logical equations of life, an observer of the chaotic rendering of human activity, and an agent for communicating all of them.
In a very close to-my-heart artwork, “One-armed race against memory”, for example, I recuperated a car door, as a symbol of a national “treasure” and all the associated memories I, similar to many children of the 90’s, as well as earlier generations have about it. I projected on the rearview mirror, which was replaced with white resin, a video of my family in a montage back-to-back with what was happening, politically, at the same time, between the 70’s and the 90’s. This opened my younger self to a whole new array of representation methods, by being subjected to the emotional responsiveness of the public over the reality I was showing.
Poetics aside, I believe that the condition of post-modernity and all the “posts” we see as “meta”, “hip” or absurd altogether, stand for the dissolution of historically hard-earned delimitations for art, politics, social and cultural manifestations. I act in this ecosystem, taking advantage of, sometimes for my own benefit, of this abrupt ambiguity, to dare to create a mishmash of art, sometimes speculating, never settling on one single aesthetic or niched subject. Until now, I have worked with photography both in its traditional and its “post” form, digital and on film, with found objects, or objects created from materials, in a sculptural manner, with video or new media approaches, in and outside the gallery.