Odyssey
This circular composition unfolds as an allegorical landscape in which identity extends beyond the individual, emerging within a living and interconnected system. At its center, a luminous nucleus suggests a point of origin, surrounded by a dynamic field of forms evoking organic, almost cellular processes of transformation and continuous becoming. Around this core, a second sphere expands into a teeming world populated by hybrid forms, both terrestrial and aquatic, suggesting a rich and constantly evolving ecosystem.
Around and across these spherical structures move five figures composed of painted porcelain fragments. Each is endowed with two legs but only one human attribute — an eye, an ear, a mouth, a nose, or a brain suggested through the hairstyle — embodying a fragmented perception of reality. Isolated within their limited sensory capacities, they move forward without grasping the richness of the world beneath their feet. Unable to perceive its beings and complexity, they reveal the limits of an exclusively individual experience.
The work highlights a fundamental tension: without unity, without the sharing of perception, the whole remains inaccessible. The integration of porcelain fragments into the pictorial surface creates a subtle dialogue between fragility and permanence, while affirming the artist’s distinctive technique, which merges sculpture and painting through the firing, painting, and assembly of porcelain onto canvas.
Odyssey thus reflects on the human condition, where isolated perception restricts access to reality, and only connection allows a more complete understanding to emerge.
Alone, we look. Together, we see.
