Portraits and Figures
Selected Works, 2018–2025
Portraiture is approached through two complementary paths. Some works seek a faithful closeness to the model, capturing expression and the singularity of the features; others use geometry to cut, shift, and reconstruct the face. Between observation and transformation, this coexistence makes it possible to explore what allows a presence to remain recognizable even when its representation gradually moves away from reality.
First Time approaches the body so closely that its reading becomes uncertain. The framing isolates fragments, the curves gradually lose their anatomical identity, and the grid of translucent glazes moves across the forms. Between closeness and abstraction, the works maintain a deliberate tension between what can be immediately recognized and what remains intimate, ambiguous, or only suggested.
Body Unbound considers the female body as a space of affirmation rather than simply a subject of representation. The work connects this physical freedom with an awareness of its social and political fragility: what seems acquired can always be called into question. The body thus becomes presence, movement, and an autonomous territory, carrying a freedom that can never be considered permanently guaranteed.
In Ombilic, the figure is brought to the threshold of its own abstraction. Geometrization cuts and redistributes the planes of the body without completely erasing its presence, while light and dark values sometimes allow the subject to be recognized and at other times cause it to disappear. The work is built precisely within this hesitation: the moment when an image that is still familiar begins to become something else.
