artist statement

Materiality creates reinterpretation. 

I decided to recover sea waste materials to  work on formalcompositions that re-contextualize the sea wasted objects, this intervention of objects that define a standing era of social compromise with the inhabited environment. The Accumulations series is a result of recovery and transformation, resulting in tropicalized ready-made pieces that question and attack our hipper consumerism and vanity. 

It’s an artistic work with a certain character of appropriation of sociological hyperrealism and the essence of the purest "kitsch" style and how the citizen ritual is embodied or "incorporated" into an imaginary object of daily use. “Causing a clash between two extremes and putting two levels in contact, I try to be reflective but still be provocative in the manner of subversion and with the use of satire and provocation that these decontextualized objects make us reflect on misery and opulence and about the material and the spiritual”. 

Because I am interested in the daily world, I question the use and significance of most common objects. My goal is not only to denounce vanity, but also I call attention to the kitsch stylistic base of mass consumption. Environmental pollution is one of the most evident effects of those social attitudes. 

I believe that sculpture is a system that interweaves relations with the environment. Plus no aesthetic values are given to these discarded objects until an artist recaptures, accumulates, and returns them as digested and transformed art works. I also seek to contextualize characters with their own environments in my photographic portrait work. I have an interest in national identity as a subject matter. I’ve been capturing the different representations of Salvadoran identity through an ample album of portrait photographs. This ongoing project is titled National Typology. Up until today, this series includes more than 500 photographs a portrait series of Salvadoran people, of individuals, of couples, or of groups I present a series of actors from the Salvadorian social scene. The collection works in various senses, situating me the artist as a narrator of my time, as an investigator, and as a collector of personal stories. Documenting a moment in time of Salvadorian society with it’s particularities in a way that recalls a catalogue, the project itself moves towards the scope of contemporary cultural anthropology.