Nudes nominee

It is difficult, if not impossible, to answer mankind’s great existential dilemmas. The questions are as infinite as infinite the universe we are born in seems to be. Faced with such a display of unanswered questions, there are a series of mysteries that resonate in my mind time and again, and which have provided me with the inspiration to conceive this series. How do human beings relate to their own solitude? Does individual identity become fragmented by virtue of interacting with everything around it — including the physical space it inhabits — if only momentarily? After that fragmentation, what is it like to go back to normal? Are we aware or, rather, are we capable of being aware of everything we have intervened upon? Specially that which has intervened upon us, even if we are unable to remember? These are indeed no trivial matters. It is quite possible that all these ontological questions may never be explained because, as some philosopher once said: "there are no answers — only questions.” And those questions are still there.

Photography is a practice that allows me to play as if I were an eight-year-old with all the toys in the world within my reach. In that constant and inevitable play, reality becomes the basis for the creation of situations escaping that same reality by evoking dream-like, sometimes unsettling images. I am drawn to the world of dreams, to human psychology, to the exploration of the different identities we take on to protect ourselves from a menacing outside world and to how individuals relate to their own solitude. The rural environment in which I live, which is at the same time raw and overwhelmingly beautiful, is the perfect scenario for me to become the protagonist of that play in which everything is possible.

Next solo exhibition: December 4th to 31st / Centro Cultural La Gota · Navalmoral de la Mata · Cáceres · Spain.