Formentera 2023

"Souvenir" is a project that unconsciously arises from the need to search through memory, nostalgia, and the sense of uprootedness from a place. The need for belonging is inevitable—during adolescence, feeling part of a group can be a lifeline, a way to blend in, to forge a personality, to stop doing so, to establish oneself in adulthood… These are concepts that hover and remain. This need has been imposed on us as social beings—it is in our nature, just another form of survival. For a long time, the question "Where are you from?" made me uncomfortable; I never had a single correct answer. Today, after Souvenir, I realize that all of them were. This project is a journey through my memory—some recollections are recent, others were unlocked while searching for stories to compose and intertwine. Sixteen bare, untreated canvases reveal sixteen stories that belong to my memory, told through forms distilled to abstraction and colors that often exist only within my mind. The works are inhabited by tiny, flesh-and-blood characters—diminutive beings lost in skies that can likely only be revisited through memory. Each canvas is a souvenir, a remembrance of a place I once inhabited.

Se nos ha impuesto esta necesidad como seres convivientes, es nuestra naturaleza, una forma como otra de supervivencia. Durante mucho tiempo la pregunta; “De dónde eres?” me ha incomodado, nunca tuve una respuesta correcta, hoy y después de Souvenir me doy cuenta que todas lo eran. Este proyecto es un viaje por mi memoria, algunos recuerdos recientes otros desbloqueados mientras buscaba historias para componer y que se acompañarán entre ellas.

16 telas desnudas, en crudo, sin tratar. Revelan 16 historias que pertenecen a mi memoria.
Contadas a través de la forma que sintetizó hasta la abstracción y colores que muchas veces solo viven en mi memoria.

Las obras están habitadas por pequeños personajes de carne y hueso, diminutos seres
perdidos en cielos que probablemente sólo podrán ser visitados mediante el recuerdo.
Cada tela es un souvenir, un recuerdo de un lugar que un día habité.