“The real is what flees.”
Hugo Palmar

My artistic practice explores personal, aesthetic and conceptual aspects linked to oil culture, migration & queerness, and the intersection between art and cuisine. I work with different media and strategies, from drawing and collage to the appropriation of images transferred to painting and the incorporation of audiovisual archives to video.

In my installations, which are scenographic in nature, I seek to provoke visual, olfactory, auditory and spatial experiences through the use of sound and materials such as oil, asphalt, gravel, wood, iron, and food. In these environments, which evoke a world both real and imaginary-sometimes dreamlike or ominous-I often incorporate my own body, either in video or live actions, where I prepare, serve, and share food, creating a relationship of closeness with the viewer.

I am interested in exploring the tensions between subjectivity, power, and dependency, and their multiple dimensions-bodily, symbolic, affective, economic, historical, colonial, and political. I adopt a perspective that embraces paradox and humor to question constructs such as identity, desire, otherness and memory, subordination, the body, sexuality, extractivism and hospitality.

My practice integrates workshop work with conceptual reflection, in resonance with critical thinking, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. From drawing to installation, my work invites reflection on a condition that, while deeply personal and subjective, is also spatial, sensorial and collective.