Artist's Statement
I was born in Cuba, and from a young age I discovered that silence and solitude could be a livable place. I grew up with my grandmother and learned to see how an empty pool, a lone chair, or a reflection on the floor could hold more truth than reality itself. I don’t remember a specific moment when I decided to become an artist; it was more of a gradual revelation — the certainty that I could combine the real and the imagined to open a space for contemplation. That awareness stayed with me and led me through my studies at the Professional Academy of Fine Arts and later into my work with audiovisual media, until painting became my vital territory: a space where the intimate and the universal meet in a tense balance.
Today, my work focuses on interior scenes and everyday objects that, arranged with scenic precision, acquire symbolic weight. In my most recent series, logic and practicality cease to matter — what I seek is to dream. Every table, every glass, every lamp becomes a system of inner orientation, an archive capable of revealing desires, memories, or even hidden wounds. Just one degree toward the unusual, and the familiar transforms: there is no obvious fantasy, but rather an atmosphere altered in light and in time, turning painting into a threshold between the real and the imagined.
That same impulse has guided my path through different cities and exhibitions across Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, the United States, and Canada. My work engages in dialogue with the tradition of Post-Expressionist Figuration and visual Magical Realism, maintaining the tension between the technical and the sensorial, between the object seen and the object felt. My references — from Paul Wonner and David Hockney to Mamma Andersson and Giorgio de Chirico — remind me that the everyday can become a symbolic field. In the end, each painting is a pause: an intimate space that invites one to contemplate rather than to understand, where the viewer can encounter themselves in silence.