Artistic statement

Painting, for me, is a socially engaged nomadic act, aimed at questioning a post-industrial, “hyper-sedentarized” society. My work therefore articulates itself in the continuity of travel. Illustrated through the prism of the return, it depicts nomadic fragments sampled from different sources and from which a migratory conscience emerges to fuse the prose of travel with the brutality of industrialism.

Leaving is bliss in this sedentary world...

The human is first and foremost a being of movement, nomad from its origin. However, in its need to individualize and settle its workforce, the industrial revolution has completely perverted the contact with movement and so, with travel. Humanities mobility is more static than ever and movement loses its quality. This ultimate crystallization of sedentary nature is the source of a great social dead end and uneasiness in this post-industrial days and age in which aseptization, security, isolation, accumulation and comfort dictate the social paradigm. A much deeper and spiritual relation with nomadic behaviors is not only wished for but necessary in everyday life in order to reestablish a balance and rediscover nomadic values such as simplicity, the magic contact to reality, the solidarity and the proximity to the exterior.

The great responsibility behind mobility...

In this perspective, the act of painting becomes a manifest for an archeology of movement in which develops an interest for the research and discovery of nomadic fragments. These fragments are sparkles of nomadic impulses; the end result of a change of cap in everyday life and the opening of a breach in the sedentary time and space. Concretely, it’s an accumulation of physical or not artifacts: found objects, cogitations, photos, sketches, meetings or any other nomadic facts. Upon return, these are transposed to paintings in order to create a bridge between nomadic and sedentary realities but always maintaining the aim of the travels continuation.

The nomadic act, in all it’s shape, in every day life or abroad, interior or physical, becomes socially engaged, a perpetual disposition to transiency which causes a change of perspective and a shift in social paradigm.