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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 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.

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!