I work with what I find around me as a way of attuning to place—engaging with its layered realities and unseen tensions.
The discarded materials I gather emerge from global systems of consumption, bearing the traces of movement, labor, and neglect. I respond to their grit, scent, heft, and luminosity through processes of burning, layering, and transformation. Luminous surfaces emerge that rupture, implode, and reveal—gesturing toward an elusive thread that binds earth and cosmos, reframing material, context, and place.
As a child, I fled Uruguay with my family following a military coup. This rupture—and the subsequent migrations that have shaped my life—inform how I relate to material and memory. Growing up in cultures where reuse was born of necessity instilled in me a deep respect for the provisional and a trust in the transformative potential of the everyday.
My practice entails a rigorous questioning of inherited perceptions and an openness to what endures beyond them. It embraces uncertainty and transformation, positioning the everyday as a site of renewal and collective possibility.