I make sculptures that are abstract yet bodily and sexual. My practice is intuitive and process-based, involving material research focused on clay and paint skins. I develop my own techniques to create what I conceive as non-human bodies that evoke fleshiness, body fluids, and fertility in an attempt to give anima to inert matter.

I am fascinated by the transformational aspects of materials. I prepare paint patches that I lay to dry, and when they are still soft and flexible I extend them, skin-like, on cold stoneware bodies. Other times I hang these skins from rods, giving a brutal aspect to an otherwise delicate materiality. In my ceramics I create dissonance and flirt with the abject by contrasting precious materials like gold with masses of brute, humble, mud-appearing clay.

When I work on site-specific installations I treat buildings as bodies that host an organism growing out of them. In these projects I take over walls, staircases, nooks and floors, playing with the construction’s own accidents - such as cracks and signs of physical decay- and making sterile architecture feel alive.

Like life, love is generative: it creates something where nothing existed before. As a recent South-American immigrant I find challenging cultural differences in the way we relate to our bodies and hearts. Through my work I affirm the value of this connection almost as an act of resistance to cultural hegemony. Skins, fluids and other sensual expressions present in my pieces reflect the tactile process of how they are made and reconnect us with pleasure and emotions.