Group Photo (Self-portait)

Medium format film photograph / Final act of performance

2023

“The Elbow Room”, Cambewell College of Art

My current artistic practice in painting, printmaking, photography, and performance is informed by chance as a guideline for accessing hidden networks that operate within our ecosystems. My methodology is often influenced by the avant-garde tradition developed by Dada and Surrealist artists in working with indeterminacy as a decisive factor in the creative process of play and observation. As an alternative to our currently vague discursive media and scientific data, I believe working through our inherent contradictions via our experience with perception promotes an exercise of self-reflection and compassion.

The various outcomes in my work involve cultivating intuitive feedback with materials and contexts in the search for hidden signals where formal residue and emerging symbols construct meaning for both the artist and the audience together and over time. Similarly to ritual practices and psychotherapy, such processes are located at the essence of the experience of art in how they engage with reason and emotions as parts of our ambiguous human nature towards a more sustainable engagement with personal, social, and ecological plains.

My processes usually derive from geographical accidents, a scientific term coined frequently in Spanish when referring to Landscape as an alternative to paisaje, as means to benefit from regarding landscape as accident; painting as landscape; painting as accident. As much as both landscape and images sustain a variety of subjects with different bodies and histories, they both become spaces of physical and symbolic confrontation. Considering each viewer’s perspective, all images include both abstract and figurative languages simultaneously.