My Work

I think of my work as a map of my personal life history. Influenced by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Bispo do Rosario and others, I give voice to my ancestral roots, memories and elements that emerge from the unconscious. Those elements become raw material for my creations. For the past 20 years, I have been working with ready-made objects; I have collected, cataloged by feelings, sensorial inputs and themes, transformed in new materialities that create a body of work through a melancholy and poetic language. Materials such as memorabilia, antiques, trinkets, books, old anonymous portraits, have been incorporated into my creations to emphasize the concept and the poetry of my artwork. 

Years of experience performing art restorations have instilled in me a fondness for patina, the fragility of the matter, rust, the scent of what time has created. That experience has given me a taste for work with the transformation of materials over time.  

I collect old objects and give them a new existential meaning with my own memories. I work with them in an effort to rescue some of the existential importance that was lost as a consequence of time and obsolescence, abandonment and destruction. I found myself continually returning to questions about life, death, time, remembrance and forgetfulness. Through my art, I have composed complex dialogues in the form of aesthetic images, bringing up those issues to be explored by my mental and sensorial experiences within the context of contemporary art, creating a dichotomy between the fragility and lightness of the matter, and the weight and power of the subject.

In my artwork, I challenge the viewer to think for themselves through their own interpretation. It fosters a powerful dialogue where the public and the private mix together, creating unexplored new territories that have an impact on our contemporary culture.