"(IM)PERMANENCE"

This series emerges directly from the act of creation, rooted in the materiality of charcoal and sanguine—pigments whose volatile and transferable nature served as a catalyst for reflection on the ontology of the mark. The starting point is a recurring and seemingly banal event: the discovery that, upon finishing a drawing, my own face was marked by the charcoal. These involuntary gestures, performed during the act of creation, revealed a dichotomy between the awareness of the artistic process and the unconsciousness of the marks that the body simultaneously produced on itself.
The realization that I was continuously 'staining' myself without full consciousness sparked a deeper questioning regarding the human need to leave marks. Why do we feel this necessity? Could the production of images be an attempt by the subject to exist beyond themselves? To exist through something else? We live in a world of constant reaffirmation of the self; through objects, we declare who we are, which groups we belong to (or wish to belong to), and we build social relations based on what we possess. Through our image, we assert our place in the world. We live in a society that speaks incessantly about itself.
However, in this restless search for the affirmation of our existence, we forget the beauty that lies within the fragility of presence. We ignore that presence is, by definition, a transitory state rather than a physical condition; we forget that to be present is always to be on the verge of disappearing. Compared to the existence of the universe, we emerge and vanish almost simultaneously; yet, I believe it is precisely within the instability of human presence—in this fragility that conditions our existence—that the preciousness of being resides.
This series aims, therefore, to reclaim impermanence—the act of ceasing to be—not through a melancholic or horrific lens, but as a natural condition of our very existence. This work is an invitation to reflect upon mark, memory, and disappearance.