2025
This glass has been created to hold not only water, but also an intimate moment.
Hand-carved in glass and available exclusively by commission, it hides a verse within—
revealed only when the water disappears:
“I think about you inexplicably often.”
2022
The term 'persona' and 'personality' come from the Latin, meaning 'mask'. Therefore, the person is the mask that we put on before going out into the external world.
This gave rise to a profound reflection on the limits of reality, personality and human uniqueness. A space that would continue to generate questions or would simply be the answer to a fantasy. The result is that, after all, everything, even what refers to the human particularity and its complex personality, can be classified as a "scanned document".
Bound - Inside
2021 - Present
2021 - Present
We live in a visual age,
in constant evolution,
that has no end in sight.
“As every style has a tendency to turn towards its opposite when it reaches the top”, we must generate from intuition, images that are communication. Pieces that accompany and even replace words, which allow more abstract associations and reinforces the emotions activation. Being like a more direct link, a shorter step. Nothing less than sublime should suffice. Maintaining as a center, a culturally relevant and well-argued content .
in constant evolution,
that has no end in sight.
“As every style has a tendency to turn towards its opposite when it reaches the top”, we must generate from intuition, images that are communication. Pieces that accompany and even replace words, which allow more abstract associations and reinforces the emotions activation. Being like a more direct link, a shorter step. Nothing less than sublime should suffice. Maintaining as a center, a culturally relevant and well-argued content .
2021
As Walter Lippmann pointed out in his work Public Opinion (2003), since we do not have direct access to everything that happens in the world, we turn to the media to know the truth of the reality we live in.
However, if we go deeper into the concept, we would come to the conclusion that it is an indefinable idea, for its continuous transformation makes it ungraspable for the majority.
In this case the reality created by the hand of man. The media, governments, politicians and, now, also “new technologies” and social networks have been forging a terrifying structure through which they decide what our perception of reality should be (Agenda Setting Theory, McCombs and Shaw, 1972).
It is in this context of infoxication or over-information in which we live immersed that we should ask ourselves: Are we free or are we just slaves? In this regard, Stuart Mill argued that, precisely, freedom of expression is a necessary condition to allow the truth to be revealed.
This piece is born in a spontaneous and informal way. It alludes to how the manipulation of the media has an effect on our way of perceiving and interpreting what we experience.
The technique itself is also a metaphor for how what was once tangible, a newspaper, is now an intangible representation in digital format.
The mix of images, news and texts, overly geocentric narratives loaded with collective interest, lets us see some questions that can bring out the truth.
2018
The mother tongues and their writing system are, without a doubt, a vital aspect that pervades knowledge and transmission of this culture from generation to generation.
Mesoamerican culture is an excellent illustration of this. The Nahuatl language, which was once spoken in the Aztec empire, was sculpted in sound matter by the indigenous spirit and expressed through glyphs engraved on stone codices. Its vibrant hues demonstrate its undeniable link to the environment and wildlife, while also displaying Mexico's geographical names.
The work of Mexican doctor Antonio Peñafiel, collected in the Alphabetical Catalog, is an original and unique source of knowledge about preHispanic Mexico (1830-1922).
It contains over 460 decoded glyphs and is designated by UNESCO as a Bibliographic Heritage of Humanity. The "Glifos" project arose from a profound love for Mexican culture.
It is caused by the natural beauty of the glyphs, which inhabits the way they were formed. Speaking náhuatl is a "clear or pleasant sounding language," as the name implies.
The pieces are embroidered like poems, by hand, with delicacy, and with the soul of Mexican women, and they become small, one-of-a-kind, and unrepeatable relics.
The material used to make them is likewise not arbitrary.
Linen is also a symbol of the significance of protecting and preserving our environment.
Special thanks to Jorge Acevedo and the Sierra de Chiapas Mexico native women embroiderers, Teodora Aguilar, Reyna Aguilar, Reyna Rodriguez, and Carmen Hernandez, who made this project possible with their hands and hearts.
2017
Thinking about it implies being aware that the human being, by his power of creation, will continuously provoke evolutionary changes.
The future is about thinking about a future. And, for this, a global effort is required. Reinventing our relationship with textiles, proposing a sustainable future with an economy that generates growth and not destruction.
2015
Sometimes, however, the best way to approach an issue is simply to look at it differently, from a different perspective or by changing the order of the factors. Breaking down possible solutions into parts and following them through new routes.
The exercise of disassembling to reassemble makes us reflect on the volatility of things. Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. Nothing is written. A reality can give rise to multiple realities depending on the way you look at it.
This concept is somewhat reminiscent of what Edward De Bono defined as “lateral thinking”, which is the act of looking at things from atypical points of view, very similar to what happens to us with humour.
The process of jumping from one idea to another is very similar: finding unexpected, different or hidden relationships between apparently unrelated elements.
This project explores the inverse sense of pattern making. It starts from an already created piece, such as the three shirts, and disassembles them to create a new one, with other fabrics, shapes and meanings.
From three shirts, by placing them one on top of the other, they form a new piece, a dress.
2017
Has art lost its ability to generate in the viewer an unrepeatable contemplative experience? Is the unique concept somewhat obsolete due to the advancement of technology?
Those unconnected, abstract forms were captured on paper, and in the process I was portraying them. Later, I made several copies on a photocopier, replicating it inaccurately over and over again. Was he aware that this would put the original in crisis, perhaps losing the here and now? Reproducing the initial model over and over again.
From this process arose the reflection on the influence of technical reproduction in art and the concepts of unique and unrepeatable. Has art lost its ability to generate in the viewer an unrepeatable contemplative experience? Is the unique concept somewhat obsolete due to the advancement of technology?
In this case, the photocopies have the desire to capture something as unique and singular as the tear, and that, despite being a reproduction, continues to emanate authenticity and an aura of its own. It is the experience of the unrepeatable.
2013
The object that stars in this project was found in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan. It was a gray and very rainy day, there were almost no people on the street. The guide was lying on the last flight of stairs of one of those typical 4-story buildings with the fire escapes on the outside.
Wide open, wet from the rain, it had an endearing effect on me. I knew I would never be of any use to anyone anymore and automatically many words came to my mind at that moment. Words that I will list and to which I would later attach meaning.
I had the impulse to save it. To preserve it and pay attention to it. To take care of it and capture it as it was found. A sensitive provocation to continue exploring its interior until discovering its hidden parts. It was a unique object, deteriorated and forgotten. A simple wet telephone directory thrown in the street. However, from an artist's point of view, that phone book was much more and, as such, I allowed myself, out of pure satisfaction, to do something with it, to intervene. It was the beginning of a close relationship to make something inanimate immortal, to restore the fortune to what has had an unfortunate life. Because no one has noticed to contemplate its beauty even if it has become something forgotten.
This project invites us to reflect on the attachment we have to people and things as opposed to oblivion. Of beauty as an abstract notion that fights against the transience of time. Of the artist's action to immortalize what is already dead in order to make it immortal.