Artist Statement

I draw because it is the most honest way I have found to understand what surrounds me and what remains within me. Drawing is not only a technique; it is a process of observation, questioning and resistance. It is through drawing that I seek to give form to emotions, memories and concerns that could hardly exist through words alone.

My work almost always begins with a rigorous representation of the human figure or of objects charged with symbolic meaning. This precision interests me because it establishes a feeling of stability and control. However, that stability never remains intact. Over the drawing, I introduce spray paint, adhesive tape, handwritten text, geometric forms, arrows, stains and other graphic elements that interrupt the image, creating a constant dialogue between construction and destruction, order and chaos.

I see these interventions as a natural extension of drawing, not as a decorative gesture. They are marks that represent excess information, memory, anxiety, visual and emotional noise, and the multiple layers that shape contemporary human experience. I am interested in the moment when an apparently finished image stops being a portrait and becomes a territory of conflict, where different languages coexist and compete for space.

Throughout my practice, I have repeatedly returned to themes such as identity, vulnerability, intimacy, mortality and psychological confinement. I do not seek to illustrate these concepts, but to create open images, capable of generating different readings and establishing a personal relationship with those who observe them. I believe a work is only completed when it ceases to belong to me and begins to exist in each viewer’s experience.

Drawing remains at the centre of my practice because it demands time, silence and an almost meditative attention. The interventions appear later, intuitively, as a response to the need to break that initial serenity and bring the work closer to the complexity of the world in which we live. It is in this unstable balance between precision and spontaneity, delicacy and violence, presence and absence, that I find the language I seek to build.