Throughout my career, I have been interested in exploring material culture from an archaeological perspective, particularly the multilayered nature of objects, their history and symbolism, in paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, performances, and mixed media works on paper. In the last few years I have developed a body of work, reflecting on the relationship we, as human beings, establish with the objects we create, use, and discard. I explore two forms of relationships: hoarding and disassembling.
I address hoarding as horror vacui drawings. These works depicts accumulations of objects, devices and accessories from everyday life, piled up, and drawn closely together, so as to flood the pictorial space. Each object is represented life-size. Hoarding as clear sign of consumerism, and anxiety before economic crisis, inform this series. I pair the act of drawing with that of consuming goods, which is why I pack these metaphorical boxes with objects of every kind. The title of the works indicate the number of objects drawn in it.
As for the dissasembling series, I focus on a single object which function is that of offering audio or visual information (radios, cameras, tvs, etc…), and the act of dismantle it becomes an anatomic lesson of sorts, which allows the viewer to metaphorical immerse themselves into a new world composed by the history, epoch, ideology, materials and shapes hidden in this artifacts.
In 2021 I started developing the series titled Endoscopic Landscapes. For it, I use an endoscopic camera to capture images of the internal structure of the kind of objects mentioned above. I later translate some of those images to canvases recreating landscapes of sorts. These obsolete mechanisms brought to a new dimension offer a dystopian vision of useless industrial spaces or abandoned cities that I like to called micro-ruins. I have started this series by dissecting radios and TVs assembled in the 70s which brands are titled with names given to groups of natives from the Caribbean: Taíno (radio), Caribe (TV), Siboney (Radio).