Statement

My work stems from my deep fascination with contemporary society, its inherent voraciousness and capability to produce information, false narratives (fictions), different roles and complex –often times contradictory- identities. Consequently, I scrutinize and get inspired by various phenomena such as global markets and consumer society, cultural industries and the mass media, the transformation of obsolete public spaces and infrastructures, the acts of aggression towards the landscape, humanitarian and social crises, viral transmission of information, along with some other massive events (media culture, sports, political campaigns, concerts, charity shows, street publicity, etc.).

In the early stages of my career I used to develop complex series of paintings together with mixed-media works that incorporated drawing, collage, small objects and texts. Nonetheless, in the past decade my work has gradually become more conceptually-oriented thus requiring the use of thematically-focused, multimedia projects and a hybrid strategy based on visual imposture, provocation through texts, irony and contrast. This rapid evolutionary process has given me the chance to combine my previous work with other techniques/media such as digitally-processed and manually-altered photography, installation, object-based sculpture, video projections and sound.

Generally speaking, my projects are meant to challenge the observer and get him/her involved in a so to speak deciphering process. To do so, I aim to create fictions which subtly portray a critical perception of our society’s most widely accepted models, archetypes and utopias. In a way, my work can be regarded as underground since it sarcastically depicts the aberrations of contemporary society in the form of hybrid, attractive and “wittily balanced” pieces of art. Within this conceptual framework, I deal with some key issues of existentialism but now updated, such as the individual’s transforming potential, the quest for material and ethical success, our most common identity-building mechanisms, personal memory and collective forgetfulness.

Since the late 1990s my work has been exhibited in museums, contemporary art fairs, galleries and cultural venues all over Spain and in other countries such as the U.S.A., the U.K., Mexico, Germany, France, Portugal and Italy. Solo exhibitions and visual arts events include: ARCO Madrid, PhotoEspaña PHE'11, Espacio Bertelsmann and CEART also in Madrid, the Cervantes Institute in Berlin, Arts Santa Mònica and "Círculo de Lectores" Foundation (CCCL) in Barcelona, ART Miami and ArtExpo San Francisco (U.S.A.), the AAF in London, Tinglado 2 and the Museum of Modern Art (Tarragona), IVAM and Incubarte IV Visual Arts Festival (Valencia), the Remo Brindisi Arts Festival held in Ferrara (Italy), and the D.A. Siqueiros Museum in Mexico.