Stay inside is a painting that I started shortly after the pandemic transformed the world. It aims to reflect on... Read More
Stay inside is a painting that I started shortly after the pandemic transformed
the world. It aims to reflect on the even deeper meaning that our houses, as
shelters and fortresses, have come to have in our lives. The house, the place
par excellence and our corner in the world, came to be lived in an
unprecedented way and we all dealt more directly and intensely with its
environment, its interior, its things, the people in it, its experiences and
memories kept in each corner. We were sent inside. We had to stay inside and
look into our intimacy more than ever. As Julián Santos Guerrero wrote in 2011,
"A house has a structural intention of survival." This painting
invites us to enter and explore the interior space, to physically experience a
place to live. The house has, in my work, a recurring presence, being deconstructed,
made fictional and utopian, connected with an appropriation of architectural
language to painting. Painting actually wants to leave itself and become a
three-dimensional object. In this process, color, an element as fascinating as
it is intriguing, takes on a transforming potential in our perception of
volume, depth and illusion.
