Artist Statement
My work reflects on ideas such as psychosocial behavior, stereotypes, gender roles, expectations, etc. Through my imaginary compositions, I deconstruct the individual and collective identity. Exploring the tension between integration and rejection, belonging and isolation, anxiety and mental health, wondering: How do our surroundings affect who we are? Is our individual or hybrid identity confined, adapting, or transforming?
Due to the impacts of the pandemic, I’m interested in the discomfort of post-pandemic realities, exploring the suspended temporality of our most vulnerable state, sleep, and reflecting on the blurred lines between mirrored selves and genuine identities. In other words, using sleep as a metaphor to represent how our identity might be dormant while we pretend to fit in different alter egos.
The desert is the scenario portraying these narratives regarding constructed identity. Representing that infinite external void where many of us get lost; a space where we become vulnerable and exposed. A space where our body seems to be present while the mind inevitably tries to escape to our identity roots.
