2009

This series of reproductions of classical portraits, embellished with plastic gems, explores the tension between the permanence of art and the fragility of human life. By intervening these Renaissance and Baroque portraits—images originally created to resist oblivion—the work questions this promise of immortality through phrases taken from contemporary songs and colloquial expressions.

The series alludes not only to museum-like “high culture” but also to domestic nostalgia and middle-class memories. These printed reproductions, like decorative reminders that once adorned our living rooms, invite us to reflect on memory, loss, and the domestication of art history.

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2017

The work appropriates and reinterprets a historical icon of Western art: the portrait of Franciulla Petrus Christus.
The hanging mask conceals but also reveals: skin and bones, family jewels and chains. Under its protection, small fungi grow on the floor, shrouded in the darkness of the room.
Chains in fashion function as a decoration of status and power, exalting the sovereignty of the body, while in confinement they become a trap that nullifies the will.
The work functions as a reflection on the beauty that resides not only in decay, in what is devalued or discarded, but also in family mysteries that, like jewels or rotten fruit, are the substrate for fungi to grow.