Portugal
• 1985
Biography
Lisbon, Portugal 1985. Currently lives in Barcelona where he works as assistant for the sculptor Samuel Salcedo.
I treat the human body as a substance which is in constant decomposition, transformation and regeneration. In my work you can notice a rhizomatic logic; a kind of intuitive growing which follows a pattern which is almost bacterial, where the inner part is mixing up with the outer one. It concentrates impetus and emotions, energies and fluids, memories and bowels, which in every moment are changing, breathing, imagining..
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I treat the human body as a substance which is in constant decomposition, transformation and regeneration. In my work you can notice a rhizomatic logic; a kind of intuitive growing which follows a pattern which is almost bacterial, where the inner part is mixing up with the outer one. It concentrates impetus and emotions, energies and fluids, memories and bowels, which in every moment are changing, breathing, imagining..
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1985