STATEMENT

My encounter with art is spiritual and it was made on earth

I create my art because I always felt the need to express my feelings and thoughts in a more beautiful and subtle way than words or acts of everyday life. I started art studies and jumped from school to school and from book to book trying to find my way to art, until I felt touched by Primitive Art, Pre-Columbian Art and later Art Brut, Mexican Muralism, African Art and Street Art.

Since then I felt that art was in some way really personal and although I seek to influence myself and admire other people's arts, my production focuses on the search for my own truth and experience. It is also for this reason that I decided to live other experiences that did not necessarily involve the visual arts directly and I embarked on trips through Latin America, venturing into fashion, the creation of digital platforms, marketing and in the world of start-ups.

This experience made me return to painting more determined to talk about my history, my feelings and about the current world.

My first encounter with art and matter was in a ceramic workshop, in fact my specialization in art school was ceramics because I felt a true humility and connection with the earth. For this reason, from time to time I go back to ceramic art where I can work with the material in a close and utilitarian way while in painting I can feel a more spiritual side.

In my search for expression I pay attention to mistakes

I create my artworks with acrylic and watercolor paint to compose backgrounds of multiple textured layers to which I then add a drawing with a brush or marker. I prepare my fabrics from recycled sheets, recovered theater skies, abandoned tea towels to make them my base of work. I paint my fabrics on plastic sheeting, on the ground, where paint from other fabrics adhere to the new fabrics giving continuity to my work, like a chain of paintings linked by previous works.

Each fabric I prepare, I do it calmly, starting a canvas with an abstract that remains like this for some time as if the canvas were finished but then I paint the lines that compose my figures urgently before my feelings change.

I do not try to reach the perfection of the technique, I value the expression more. If I create a stain unintentionally, the gesture will remains there. I tend to pay more attention to accidents during the process. I am more and more convinced that in errors we discover something unique and new, sometimes for the better.

My Art is the direct expression of my feelings

Since I was little I felt a certain sensitivity and attraction towards beauty as a way to heal some experiences lived in my family history. With my parents we fled the Chilean dictatorship and began a journey through several countries in a state of continuous escape and cultural transformation. I had the opportunity to experience very different countries and from each one I absorbed and released my own vision.

My oeuvre is the direct expression of my feelings and needs of change that i experiment as human being. I am looking to capture beauty, poetry and offer some justice and inspiration to people. I seek both to tell my story and to sensitize souls. What matters most to me is to offer what I have in me, sometimes seeking to educate, sometimes seeking my liberation.

I believe that we can aspire to be totally human through consciousness and i expect that the spectator will find in my paintings characters painted in a very simple way with complex textured backgrounds, meditative characters surrounded by symbols that represent ecology, feelings and economic systems.

My focus on art is that of all people aligned with our time

Currently, i mainly focus in Ecology that is an urgent struggle to solve, this is why the symbol of the leaf appears in many of my paintings to remember our mother nature, the amazon forest and the indigenous that originally lives there.

I also focus on social matters because of my Chilean history past. I am actually start a series called “Ojos de Chile” (Eyes of Chile) that talks about the recent revolution in my country.

In my last and more important series “Art(gent) pour Argent” (that in french means Art for Money) i exchange my manufactured money for money. The series talks about the power of money and the cryptocurrency specifically, and how it is changing our long-term vision. I try to describe what is my relationship with money and how I see the relationship that people have with money. I want to know what the future of digital money will be in an increasingly virtual world.