In this series of interventions, I wanted to highlight specific elements of the environment that usually go unnoticed despite their visual interest, yet which I find representative of a place. Using walls—generally deteriorated—as frameworks, I paint on them to redefine their volumes, merging real references with their pictorial representations.
We are used to perceiving reality through representations—for example, when a master interprets light or vividly paints the qualities of a material—but we rarely pay the same level of attention to these nuances in our own environments, even though they contain an infinite number of aspects impossible to replicate in a two-dimensional representation. A drawing of a wall on a piece of paper can be easily appreciated if the lines accurately refer to reality; however, when those lines are traced directly onto the referent itself, the representation appears extremely simple, and in contrast, the heterogeneity of the surrounding space becomes evident.
The process is also very important to me. The treatment of the walls—carefully cleaned, covered in white through different layers, and redefined with lines that select the main contours—is a personal attempt to devote attention to the various qualities of the elements within a specific space: its composition, shapes, volumes, textures, materials, colors and tones, light and shadow. What begins as an exercise in observation gradually becomes, through the slow working process, a particular understanding of the space I am intervening in. In this way, each intervention becomes a trace of a moment of attention and an act of appropriation of a small fragment of my environment.
This is a way of drawing attention to the spaces we inhabit, but it is also a personal response to the discreet action of nature, which seems to reclaim man-made spaces—shaping, decomposing, and coloring them through its elements (rain, heat, humidity, etc.) as part of an ongoing process of deterioration. My interventions act as a reply to the action of nature, attempting to reaffirm a position of human awareness, which is then answered once again by the elements acting upon my work, creating a kind of hidden dialogue.
These interventions have been carried out in different locations across Europe since 2012.
