My practice explores the trace as a human expression and a symbol of self-awareness, understood both as a material mark in the world and as an affective residue between bodies and things. From the rock engravings in Paleolithic caves to the minimal remnants of everyday life, I focus on gestures that document existence and raise questions about our place in the world, about individual and collective identity. The mark/trace signals the onset of symbolic thought, communication and the search for meaning, but it is also a site of neurosis, vulnerability and sacrifices of intimacy that unsettle the viewer.
I treat intimacy as a testing ground, where zones of strangeness and mismatch emerge that feel out of place in the social sphere: slightly skewed everyday scenes, neglected corners and minimal objects that condense affective tensions. In the intensity of these objects and gestures I seek to hold the
emotional weight of the human, allowing the truth of ordinary situations, a distilled language, ambiguity and silence to complete the work.
My work materializes between trace, self-awareness and memory: the bonds between self and other, intimacies, remnants and the undoing of a subject, bringing into focus what appears as residue or absence, as an indication of humanity. The question of “a place in the world” structures my material choices: found images and materials, print matrices, the manual gesture of drawing and stain, a restricted palette and domestic settings that underscore the intimate nature of the work. My practice is multidisciplinary and unfolds across painting, drawing, photography, objects and relational actions; plastic experimentation and the book as object/support become transfer spaces, laboratories for aesthetic and emotional reflection.