ARTIST STATEMENT

On SETS, I utilize sharp angles, textures, and layers to construct forms that are strong, secluded, and unsettling. I reimagine objects by reflecting on their intended purpose, repurposing them through transformation and change.

A quiet uncanniness. Emotional detachment as a means of adaptation. Present, yet inaccessible.

My artistic practice takes the form of scenography, photography, performance, and sculpture. I explore the human condition through objects made both for and against us: botched ergonomics, off-the-shelf materials, and remnants from previous projects. To seek, find, discard, replace, destroy, and create—then recreate. An autofiction tinted with absurdity.

BIOGRAPHY

I am a multidisciplinary artist born in Lisbon. Trained as an industrial designer, my professional career began in the Stage Department at Caracas's Teatro Teresa Carreño, one of Latin America's most prestigious performing arts institutions. From there, I continued designing spaces within the Art Department for film, television, advertising, and editorial projects in the United States and Spain. My editorial practice also led me to Condé Nast, where I worked in photographic editing before expanding into producing, set styling, and authoring architecture, travel, and design features.

From an early age, and throughout my years in design school, I was deeply influenced by film—particularly film noir, the French New Wave, realism, and surrealism. My understanding of Dada emerged through the work of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, whose practices moved fluidly between photography, drawing, graphic design, and sculpture. Their work revealed that artistic expression need not be confined to a single discipline; when pursued deeply, each discipline enriches the others.

That same instinct continues to guide my practice. My sculptural work draws directly from years spent designing and building sets that were never intended to endure. Materials once discarded after film productions become the foundation for a body of work that treats scenography itself as both medium and subject.