Venezuelan born multimedia artist with studies in journalism (B.A.), photography, cinema, theater and art (M.B.A). Published author and writer, producer, director and art director of theater, opera and multimedia shows.

Solitude has been always a theme in my work. Since the fist images I created in my teens, I´ve made my deepest fears a source of inspiration. Unconsciously at the beginning and now days as a result of my research.
Solitude as a huge fear of mankind for not been understood; not to be respected; not to be ¨completed¨.
That fear I now call ¨Horror Vacui” or ¨Fear to the emptiness¨, expresses itself in my writings and my images in so many ways.
When an image inhabits time and space in the shape of a video, the Horror Vacui unfolds (as my poems do) going ways where narrative laws are broken. Is then when the presence of ¨the other one¨ appears as a ¨ghost.
The trapped image of my photos, shows instead, the multiple layers of the “subject” reflected as a multiple identity opening and exploding like reverberations of images and sounds to finally return to become one, making always evident the absence of “the other one”.
The human body, as the physical manifestation of one identity, share its existence both in the multidimensional image of the video as in the bi dimensional image of the photos. Both phenomenons are a vivid manifestation of the subjacent ideas on my writing, from where the multimedia work comes alive to become a medium itself. A medium that needs no crutches but that have learned to be nurtured by another, keeping the nutrients of a text that seems absurd, but holds the secrets of a humanity that struggles to survive, knowing that there is just un certain thing: the impossibility to make the true the dream of finding your “other half”. That complement that is missing since we are borne and we will never find.
Eros will show up now and then, making sketches of a vast variety of human needs and desires. Like a spider he will make threads to entrap and hypnotize us in a space and time continuum that we will walk ad infinitum.
Sexual diversity is always a reference and a perpetual study subject, research interest and challenging provocation.


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