DEIH

Visual Artist from Valencia, Born 1978

Artistic Focus: Drawing Castaways and Inner Worlds

I draw castaways. Pilots lost in hostile environments trying to escape from a planet that is their own mind. I draw in order to understand the things that happen to me, for fun, and to better comprehend the world. I draw and paint to connect with other people. I feel quite at ease with science fiction. Sometimes I think each one of my works functions as a frame from a much longer film. I like to think that whoever faces one of these works inevitably will contribute all the information that is not shown in the piece, completing it with his own experiences, his dreams, his traumas, creating their own piece from mine.

Early Beginnings in Graffiti and Academic Background

I started painting graffiti in 1993/4 and afterwards studied Art (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia). For some years now I have been working on a series that has grown, developing, unfolding in a very organic way, finally becoming the core of my creative work.

The Insider Serie: A Long-Term Creative Journey

Since I started the Insider Serie I have been fortunate to travel the world over painting murals in Urban Art festivals (Turkey, Iceland, Bielorussia, Mexico, Cabo Verde, USA, Belgium, Norway…) and participate in many exhibitions, both collective and individual in several countries, in galleries and museums (my latest solo show has been in Goldman Global Arts Gallery in Wynwood Walls, Miami 2023).

Key Themes: Time, Identity, Solitude, and the Cosmos

I am obsessed with the nature of time, with the vision of the other, the shadow, the loss and the desire, the limits of reality and approaching the Cosmos from a human scale. I am very interested in certain emotions such as loneliness, uprooting, and the possibility of creating a better future…

Painting as a Way of Thinking

Truthfully, I could spend hours writing about what my work means but I rather would have my work speak for itself. Definitely, I think painting is a way of thinking. Through painting we can conquer other places which are not accessible through words. That makes me feel good.