Animation
Statement general
2013 / 2024
Since 2013, I have been developing animations that have led me to explore new ways of telling stories through movement and sound. I use a mix of techniques, including cutouts, magazine collages, and painting, to compose the animations and achieve a personal and improvisational charge in their content. Through this creative process, personal experiences are transmuted into stories that are joined together through movement and sound, enhancing perceptual sensations and creating a unifying experience for the viewer.
Alienation and different interpretations are key elements in my work and are reflected in the symbolic goal of my moving paintings. The pictorial expressiveness allows me to establish relationships, criticisms, and analyses about the human condition, contemporary social problems, politics, and art. My characters are often shrouded in anonymity, a genetic scribble that refers to the sign of the «human being.» This ambiguity and lack of definition in the characters invite the viewer to reflect on their own identity and to question the way we relate to others and the world around us.
Each video is a work of art in itself, full of symbolism and hidden meaning, which invites the viewer to discover and explore. My goal as an artist is to create a visual world that generates a deep and meaningful experience for the viewer, and I hope that my moving paintings provoke a deeper reflection on the human condition.
Sísifo is not Fake News
Force of attraction
I am constantly looking for actions in specific moments, small narratives provoked even as natural accidents.
Lightning strikes the man but in the end a car catches fire.
What is that red line that diverts the destiny?
Act 1,2,3
This animated series explores the complexity of the idea of death through symbols, images and confrontations. Each video presents a unique perspective on mortality, from violence and pain to the frenetic dance of life and death in a delicate balance, and finally death as a ritual of transformation and purification.
Act 1: Red crow
«Death is a violent and painful act that confronts us with the reality of our mortality and our vulnerability in the face of the inevitable transition to death.»
Act 2: Dodging
«Although death may seem imminent, life and death are always in a delicate balance. The frenzied dance of the skulls evokes the fragility of existence and the uncertainty of the ultimate fate of every human being.»
Act 3: Everything happens at night
«The idea of death as a ritual of transformation and purification, a portal to a new cyclical beginning».
The artwork «Red Samurai» plays with the idea of the transience of life and how it influences our perception of the world around us. The samurai, representing mortality, stands on the edge of a mountain where life and death merge. The skulls falling from the sky symbolize death and the transition to a new stage.
The presence of the spears with skulls on the tip represents power and strength in life, while the flash that makes the samurai reappear symbolizes light and hope for a new life. The repetition of the video as a loop reinforces the idea of the transience of life and how everything we do can be repetitive and have an inevitable end.
All is about me
Animation-Stop Motion.
0:13 seconds (Loop)
2021
We are saturated and full of issues that pretend to give us social meaning. We must first overcome our own attachments. That is the great leap in the struggle of the individual against his inner self.
Sirens sing in the storm
Animation
0:15 seconds (Loop)
2021
Lifeguard mermaids are experts in underwater rescue.
They also bite and give chills.
The horn is part of the costume,
giving them a more exotic look.
The beard of Babel
The rotoscoped animation video shows a pensive man searching for a solution or idea. As his beard grows, it becomes a symbol of the man’s intellectual growth. However, it reaches a point where it becomes an obstacle and the man stumbles several times over his beard until he finally decides to cut it. The cutting of the beard is not necessarily what is hindering him, suggesting that sometimes we need to let go of things we think are holding us back and search for deeper solutions.
The animation is related to the story of Babel in which humans build a tower to reach the heavens, but God confuses their languages and separates them. The growth of the beard can symbolize human intellectual growth and their quest to reach greater heights. However, just like in the story of Babel, sometimes our efforts can result in an obstacle that prevents us from moving forward, suggesting that we need to seek deeper and more authentic solutions to achieve our growth and evolution.
Routine Consciousness Process
The work questions how repressed emotions, rather than dissipating, recycle themselves into an endless cycle of tension and discomfort. The characters, trapped in this repetitive process, embody the duality between societal control and the fantasy of breaking free from imposed norms. The symbols of «parasites» and «rocks» represent the emotional and social burdens that hinder authentic self-expression, while the violent actions allude to a symbolic act of resistance against these oppressive forces.
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