san francisco, 150 x 120 cm, oil, sand on linen, 2025
las grietas de los puentes que se quiebran, 2025
This series addresses the transition to adulthood from a critical perspective on artistic production and the influence of socioeconomic class. Drawing from my experience in a lower-middle-class family in Bogotá, I reflect on how access to subsidied housing and public education enabled my migration and studies abroad, but also on the paradox of choosing a profession shaped by economic and labor instability.
The work originates from family photo albums, which become an archive to explore, from a migrant’s perspective, attachment, nostalgia, and uncertainty. The series offers a critical reflection both on the representation of working-class experiences and on painting understood as a commodity—tied to elite consumption and conditioned by the material structures of the upper classes, which determine and secure its existence.
cumpleaños,
10 x 15 cm,
oil on wood panel,
2025
jardín,
10 x 15 cm,
oil, sand on wood panel,
2025
costa,
10 x 15 cm,
oil, sand on wood panel,
2025
astromelias,
35 x 40 cm,
oil on wood panel,
2025
palo de mango,
35 x 40 cm,
oil, sand on wood panel,
2025
mesita,
35 x 40 cm,
oil, sand on wood panel,
2025
salitre, 100 x 120 cm, oil, sand on canvas, 2025
las casas, 100 x 80 cm, oil, sand on linen, 2025