Landscapes of Memory

The focus of my work is the urban landscape and memory. The landscape is a memory, an experience that is remembered through its representation. We know landscapes and cities trapped in photographs or stories, but only few are part of a real experience. The landscape today is a representation, a print, a palimpsest. Mixed among other memories, the landscape is just another layer in our daily visual experience.
The city is frequently product of an occupation, intervention and sometimes destruction of the natural landscape. Sometimes we keep very little of the original landscape and are ironically we become the only trace of nature in landscapes we build. Most of my paintings are made of multiple layers that hide and reveal portions of natural or built landscapes as fragments of memory that refuse to disappear or that claim a space. Urban installations are another important component of my artwork as well as the interaction with people in the city as part of my creative process. The city is rebuilt from multiple fragments of individual and collective memories.