Biography
My artistic research over the past few years revolves around objects taken out of their context and repeated, in an imperfect balance – their very structure floating suspended over empty or nondesc
Old ploughs, examples of an archaic, yet pivotal agricultural technology, were the most influential objects in my research.
Drawing and painting represent my inner effort to highlight the mechanical articulation of these farming tools as they are left abandoned on the fields, unveiling their rusty wheels once deemed clogged beyond repair, and giving them new strength.The plough is the very first model around which I began studying aspects of contemporary living; it became, to me, the epitome of that human condition, always tiptoeing from power to utter lack of it.
In some of my works, the presence of these iron tools replaces that of men, the intent being to provide the machines with a “character” through drawing and painting techniques; in some other pieces, ploughs and humans are sharing the stage, becoming “one” and conjuring up visionary, sculpturesque images in the process.
After the plough, I used some other workaday objects that are dear to me, so as to enhance my research’s imagery – wooden pallets, ironing boards, ramps and planks, to name a few. These objects turn into makeshift shelters, unsteady supports of our daily life, whose usefulness is hardly clear or defined. The compositions are wiggly yet still, floating over canvas or paper. Human figures are merely punching in, like randomly positioned things, their very weight questioned by the oeuvre’s composition itself.
Drawings, rather than paintings, appear to be “unresolved”, incomplete. The aptic drawing technique – the reproduction of an object through observation and touch, without looking at the paper or canvas – creates a vibrating, complex system of signs that constantly moves between the objects and their ideal shapes, making the final result lighter and more enigmatic.
Each representation is a staging of doubts, the purpose being to present the viewer with a synthesis, a synthesis that floats suspended between strength and weakness, balance and imbalance.
