STATEMENT
I have been interested in Art since I was a child. I remember when I went to the museum for the first time, I was only six years old. When I stood up in front of the works of art, I was in shock because I got a life-changing epiphany and I was deeply moved.
Also, another passion of mine is books. I have loved and enjoyed reading ever since I learned to read as a child. Reading a book for me is like an inner journey. Books were my safe haven in my childhood.
Nowadays I am more interested in essays, art books, sociology, philosophy, geopolitics and other books and research related to the themes of my works of art and topics of my interest.
I have been working with topics related to gender, women, men, stereotypes, fashion, social media among others for more than 15 years.
When producing my art, I like working on details. I believe that on the surface of any art production, you may just see an image portrayed but for a keen observer there are a lot of layers of meaning behind each work. I think that the education I have received has influenced me in a deep way so as to be able to produce ideas, concepts and projects full of meanings and details.
Every time I choose a topic to work on, I do research about it, I mean; not only from the artistic point of view but also from the sociological perspective. Then, I make sketches of images with lots of details before producing the final outcome.
In my artwork, I work with different mediums as photography, drawing, among others.
My work utilizes a wide variety of visual languages to create narratives. I am interested in creating a dialogue between the mediums and the languages. Usually my works are mixed media photography and collages with drawings.
More than once I have worked with collaborative projects involving the audience through my Instagram account. A good example of this is my work called “Dress code, indoors” and “The Secrets behind the dresses”.
If I think of the things that inspired me to create a work, I could mention those linked to inequalities in the world. My inspirations or personal heroes are the people that fight to change the world, that contribute to open the hearts of people.
I strongly believe that artists have a social responsibility to produce artwork with meaningful messages to improve people’s lives or challenge the status quo.