"Memories, even if they seem to be extinguished, are never completely extinguished."

"Memories, even if they seem to be extinguished, are never completely extinguished."

W.G. Sebald

 

 

In my work, the body is never a fixed place. It becomes a landscape where memory, instinct and transformation quietly coexist. I paint women who seem to emerge from nature rather than stand apart from it, allowing roots, flames, plants and imagined creatures to dissolve the boundaries between inner and outer worlds.

I often like to reflect on impermanence. Through and identified with the Catalan expression fer foc nou, literally, "to make a new fire." Rooted in an old folk tradition of extinguishing the old fire before lighting a new one, it evokes the courage to let go, to embrace change, and to begin again. Here, fire is not a force of destruction but a quiet ritual of renewal, where identity is continuously transformed rather than preserved.

I am recurrently searching and compulsively recreate the moment when identity is shed and renewed. When a memory is renewed and transfixed, to reappear and reappear.