Starting with a very strong presence of the line, my artistic practice expands from drawing to painting. I am halfway between these two techniques, mainly working on paper. I draw and I paint not to hear but to listen; not to see but to watch. The use of the gesture is for me fundamental, it makes everything tangible: abundance, people in the street, the color of dark circles, cruel and wonderful everyday experiences. I explore the human and his condition of being: the individual, relationships, and belonging to the masses. Solitude, like Giacometti, comes from the front and straightforward.

Drawing and painting allows me to translate my perception of the world and the morbidity of an era, to bathe myself with the ordinary, the everyday and with a certain triviality of reality to portray existential states, within which the viewer can project themself. The figure, the linear structure of things and bodies and faces are important because they make the image possible and allow me to intervene. To paint is a stop, a pause on this impetuous, dizzying flow of images. The figuration is a means of analysis but also a subversion on reality, a metamorphosis and a sublimation. As a bridge to the one who looks, it allows me to create something beautiful and intense, even disturbing, a kind of fragile yet vital inner experience.

Photography taken or found is an inexhaustible source of inspiration and is a medium that fascinates me. A found photograph is an encounter, once intimate yet foreign and anonymous that allows me to express and expose intimate ideas. I also work with images I take on the street, I capture the introspective vision that I have of faces that are immersed within themselves, expressions fleeting and unfathomable that suddenly move me. It is in Spain that I started to be interested in portraits. The clean and raw character of the faces, their transparency, without a mask, becomes clay under the fingers.

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