'Beautiful boy, you were a mix of honey, mint and pink'

Solo show at Soon Gallerie, Zurich (Switz)

2023

This series of paintings were made in the last 3 years (2020-2022), during this stage I was conducting research on the festive rites, I started analyzing the photographic archives of my own family albums and then that of my closer circle. With this project I begin to diagnose that the states of celebration is a fiction that hides family secrets, fetishisms, stories and passive-aggressive control.

In Latin America, the family is a very strong nucleus for our identity and organizing a lunch every Sunday, decorating the house to celebrate any achievement or news is a permanent annual appointment. From this point, I am interested in thinking that the space we inhabit, everything is ritual, everything is ceremonial and everything is governed by a personal character of ideas, postures, tricks and magic. The intensity of my colors seeks to give another character to the past, to avoid nostalgia and to offer our memory a new state of belonging, a scenario of chaos, chaos and frenzy.