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Everyday Chimeras

These pieces take the form of fantastical entities shaped by various influences. They give rise to hybrid figures in which elements of the everyday and the imagination intertwine. Clouds, ex-votos in the shape of hearts, animals, or clowns coexist with images drawn from dreams and nightmares.

The earliest works in this series constitute a starting point in my sculptural practice in ceramics and have opened up the lines of inquiry I continue today. They emerge from free associations, nourished by the random forms and elements that surround me. This intuitive gesture becomes a way of taming anxiety and transforming the ordinary into fictional matter.

Creation then becomes an almost automatic process, in which inner life manifests itself through images akin to magical realism. Each piece develops as an autonomous universe, endowed with its own formal and symbolic logic.

These anthropomorphic forms convey the absurdity and, at times, the discomfort of an unstable everyday life. They crystallize emotional states within a poetic strangeness, traversed by a humor that borders on the grotesque.

Like a Coral Anchored in the Void

Corals, although fixed to the seabed, paradoxically seem anchored in a constantly moving environment. Living organisms that form their own architecture, they are at once structure and shelter, body and home. This immobility, echoed in the ceramic material and the static condition of the sculptures, confronts us with the vertiginous notions of freedom and chance; forces that can both paralyze us and invite a lucid form of acceptance before what exceeds us.

Yet beyond this apparent stillness, the coral embodies fragility and impermanence. Exposed to currents, variations, and erosion, it remains vulnerable and in constant transformation. Its patterns of growth, based on accumulation, breakage, and reconfiguration, produce unpredictable forms. In my pieces, these extravagant, whimsical structures, vibrant colors, and organic traces extend this logic of mutation: a state in which nothing is ever permanently fixed, but everything is continuously recomposed.

Through the idea of void, materialized by hollow silhouettes and delicate interstices intertwined with human figurative elements, I explore a notion that condenses both absence and infinite potential. This void is not merely a gap, but a field of possibilities: a space where one can dream, escape, but also get lost; at once refuge and threat.

In this pursuit, I try to accept the ambiguity inherent in these tensions: the oscillation between emptiness and wholeness, existence and nothingness. The aim is no longer to seek stability, but to learn to inhabit impermanence itself, and find in it an ever-shifting home. These pieces summon the absurd as a form of resistance to the constant search for meaning and acknowledge our condition of constant wavering, like a coral anchored in the void.

Inhabiting our Ghosts

As a foreigner, I discovered that remaining true to oneself in an unfamiliar context becomes a quest filled with doubt and self-questioning. Arriving in France as a young Mexican woman, in a country that carries so much symbolic weight in our collective unconscious, triggered an inner spiral. I have always avoided speaking of identity, roots, or anchoring, preferring instead to embrace a conception of freedom in which the field of becoming remains constantly open to us.

Yet an unexpected shift occurred when I finally became aware of my own foreign body, an entity floating in its persistent difference. Here, the ghost represents this image of the self that, due to the gap between the individual and their social existence, becomes a blurred, elusive figure. At times, one can feel not fully alive, caught in the paradox of experiencing oneself as dead.

The works in this exhibition invite us to navigate the ambivalence of desire: an eternally unsatisfied, unfinished longing. They explore the confrontation with the absurd and with freedom, as well as the ways in which one can become lost in self-representation, shaped by the pursuit of individual authenticity or by social norms that already carry their own fantasies. Through the metaphor of the specter, which embodies emptiness, hollow silhouettes and fragile interstices take shape.

I invite you to immerse yourself in this notion, which paradoxically symbolizes both absence and infinite potential. This void is not simply a gap, but a space of possibility: a place to dream, to escape, but also to lose oneself. In this context, we are confronted with an ontological void, where freedom can ultimately become paralyzing. As Kierkegaard wrote, the aesthetic individual is caught in the anxiety of a free and absurd existence, a state of perpetual suspension, a specter in which artistic experience becomes a way of anchoring oneself in impermanence, in the absence of choice, in an endless quest for meaning that can never be fully realized. Yet it is precisely in this liminal space, where mystery takes on a magical form, that the charm of the unknown resides in all that could be. It is a space in which one dwells in possibility.

The idea of a fragmented, unsettled, vulnerable being gradually nourished the universe in which I have since immersed myself. The notion of self-division, not as rupture but as multiplicity of the self, became a space I could inhabit, where I could embody different versions of myself. In this way, I found a means of freeing myself from my marginal body. Through my works, with organic forms and vibrant colors, I attempt to bring my ghosts to life and invite them to gather. If we are to remain forever the ghosts of ourselves, then let us honor them, as we honor our dead, with humor and a spirit of celebration, at least for today.

Long live our ghosts!