Notes on Preamble and Conclusion

The abstracted image of an elephant has haunted me until now, as an iconographic constant. Ever since I was a child, I have seen elephants in circus surroundings, as huge living masses tied with chains to the ground, and I always found it difficult to relate to the magnitude of the sensitive mass of this enormous animal with the submission to a circus prison. At first, I only stopped to think about the problem of freedom. Still, over time, as I began to use metaphors to compose the ideas visually, I became intrigued by a very particular phenomenon, typical of animal behaviour in situations of deprivation of their freedom: the suggestive repetitive and undulating movements of the enormous grey bodies in a kind of ritual of conciliation typical of the intimacy and concentration of the autistic.

The suggestion of autistic movements as a metaphor for the isolation of the present-day human being within the occupied territory - the city - has been a conceptual constant in my work. In a series of progressive steps, it has evolved towards three-dimensional forms in which modules, in the manner of small sculptures, have transformed the external vision of the works, configuring small installations complemented and enriched by the appearance of short texts and the consequent change of construction materials.