STATEMENT

Since 1986, I’ve been working with the body as a social landscape and a political blackboard through performance, installation, drawings and video. My recent work uses behavior as its principal source to study emotional perception. I look for devices such as memory and rumor to act in the delivery and archiving of information. I’m calling it Arte de Conducta*.

For me, making Art is a way of acquiring and processing knowledge. Trying different points of view on a subject, whether artistic, social or political.

Art is an experience simultaneously physical and psychological. It is a space with a kind of freedom that allows realities, ideas, events and proposals to be possible, even if they exist in a very specific moment or place, or just for a particular group of people. It is a journey that attemps to transcend specific time and place, being, at the same time and more than ever, “here and now.”

My work is ephemeral not only because of the use of live actions or fragile materials but because of the ephemeral condition of any political “truth”

I work with fear, vulnerability, empowerment, self-determination and freedom as well as submission and obedience as social survival strategies. These tools and evidences are part of the process of resistance to entrenched power.

The intention of my work is to address the subtlety and seductiveness of power, and our own participation in its process. It is about the fragile balance between ethics and desire. Lately, the audience is also performing or part of the performative aspect of my pieces.

I’m interested in both human transformation as part and consequence of a relationship with power, as well as in the fallacy of utopian proposals.

Sometimes I think Art is just the moment in which there is a conscious act that is externally manifested, then received and circulated as Art.

* Conducta translates as behavior in English.