Stocks, workspaces, unachieved tasks and even trading are the wings of this reality. I pay attention to spare times, disruptions, situations and objects that question reality as a decorum. I’m looking for spaces of doubt between customs, considering a situation as a still-life composition.

The studio is a place where I set wandering habits. Like someone whose attention is kept by scraps of his own activity as a consumer and user. Sometimes I reproduce those bits of things, sometimes it becomes part of a set-up, as a ready-made linked to an abstract context. Now and then, the wandering consists in space modifications, from discrete operations to the making of an autonomous space.

Painting is a main element in this practice, as mentions of words and marks I noticed watching workspaces, warehouses and discount markets. Oil marks on the ground, words used in color charts in an engine shop. Color appears as stains, fading geometries and hand-painted patterns. I paint as I wander.

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