Artist statement

My practice investigates how materials, food, and bodily rituals carry histories of migration, extraction, and belonging. Through a queer perspective, I examine identity, desire, and memory, as well as the social, political, and economic structures that shape bodies and cultures.

A central concern in my work is the relationship between oil and modernity. Oil operates both as a material and as a symbol of global dependency, colonial histories, industrial development, displacement, and personal experience. Having grown up in an oil-producing region of Venezuela, I approach oil not only as an economic and environmental force, but also as a presence embedded in landscapes, social relations, domestic life, everyday objects, and collective memory.

Food and cooking are equally important to my practice. I approach them as forms of remembrance, cultural transmission, hospitality, and exchange. Preparing and sharing food creates spaces where personal memories and collective histories intersect, bringing questions of migration, identity, and belonging into everyday experience.

Working across drawing, painting, video, installation, and culinary performance, I create situations in which intimate experiences intersect with broader political and historical structures. Through sound, smell, and materials such as oil, asphalt, gravel, wood, iron, and food, I construct spatial and sensory environments that move between reality and imagination. These installations often incorporate my own body through video or live action, making physical presence and the viewer’s participation integral to the work.

Paradox and humor are recurring strategies through which I challenge preconceived notions and inherited narratives surrounding these themes. My practice brings together conceptual inquiry, archival and documentary research, and material experimentation.