(Lima, 1989) My work starts from the experience of urban spaces as circuits between ephemeral elements loaded with both political and affective content. I’m interested in the way materiality, geography and customs intertwined in the everyday, working especially in places organized around informal economies.
The journey that I want to describe with my work begins with exchange, informality and precariousness, and moves towards how otherness, marginality and the aspirations of everyday life materially filter into subjectivity. On the other hand, it also rises from the empathy that I feel when witnessing the encounter of gestures and residues around marginal urban contexts in order to move towards reflections on value and globalization.
Within my practice, I’m concerned with how materiality can be a living vestige that talks about our recent past and our social dynamics. I am interested in the way material culture can build its own narratives about disparities in neoliberal societies. Where, for example, the desire for progress mixes up with scarcity, ingenuity, and resourcefulness.
Formally, with my pieces and installations I would like to find a kind of second economy of things. Promote coexistence in those heterogeneous elements that live in the popular and the intimate as a way of subverting the norm that divides peripheral from central, form from content, industrial from artisanal.
This heterogeneous dimension, populated by scraps, materials that mimic or contain others, symbols, languages and intermittent patterns, has a value in itself and, in this fsense, I feel it should be preserved.