In my artistic practice, I play with words and images to identify and question the systemic dynamics, often deliberately rendered invisible, that induce and even influence the emotional, symbolic and material relationships we maintain with our environment, particularly in our relationship with objects, our body and language. Documentary approach, collections, re-staging and reduction of realities are some of the processes that help me project concepts and critical questions into my work. 

To develop my research, I generally choose as a starting point a detail from our environment, such as an object, a place, a word or a gesture. Then, the materialization of this research is conceived as spaces of resonance, where I share my questions and which are not intended to be answers to these questions. My forms invite spectators to appropriate and pursue these questions for themselves.


This research practice involves a daily need to listen to and read stories as much as to tell them, while at the same time seeking to understand the wider social, economic and political frameworks in which these personal stories are embedded and unfold, in order to reveal their universal character. This approach involves long periods of research, both empirical and theoretical, and a practice of collecting visual and textual notes.

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