Bodies

Graphite on paper

Have you ever felt confined in your body? Have you ever experienced discomfort or embarrassment for the space you occupy? What is that space that we inhabit? Merlau Ponty talks about a space that belongs to both, our body and the world we inhabit. 

I draw bodies. And my drawings are intimately related to this impalpable space that surrounds the body. That felt space that reaches beyond your skin. That space that your feeling body inhabits. My drawing must be felt. They are an invitation to start feeling and stop imagining, or worse, conceptualizing your body. That what legitimates physical presence over the virtual. Let’s rediscover, that before touch there is proximity, yes intimacy. Some call it aura, I call it the space where the impalpable becomes tangible.

My drawings are intimately related to this impalpable space that surrounds the body. That felt space that reaches beyond your skin. That space that your feeling body inhabits. My drawing must be felt. They are an invitation to start feeling and stop imagining, or worse, conceptualizing your body. Let’s start feeling beyond the boundaries that the mind sets. Let’s rediscover that before touch there is proximity, yes intimacy, where the impalpable becomes tangible. 

The movements of my hand are the enhancement of the intrinsic need for my body to move. My drawings capture the body that exceeds the visible outline, that space that my body’s breath inhabits. The persistent gestures out of which my drawings are made, are born out of exhaustion. Exhausted by the concept of having to fit in provided spaces, I feel into that space my body provides, undefined, though perfectly matching. Subtle, strong, permeable, vulnerable, all embracing.