Being

Before the path, there is presence.

Being is not a stable form. It is built between what we are, what we inherit, what we project, and the successive images through which we try to recognize ourselves. Painting starts from this changing condition and turns it into a space of inquiry.

The archetype is of interest because it makes it possible to go beyond the individual. Jung understood it as a deep structure that does not possess a definitive image, but rather reappears in different forms. This permanence and, at the same time, this capacity for transformation are present in these works. Figures from different times and contexts share gestures, attitudes, and symbols that are recognized even before they are understood.

The image then ceases to belong solely to the one it represents. It can contain strength, vulnerability, resistance, desire, identity, or transformation; particular experiences that, when passing through painting, acquire a broader dimension.

This is why symbols appear again and again. Not as codes to be deciphered, but as places where the gaze comes to rest. Color, gesture, scale, and certain symbolic elements construct a reality that does not seek to reproduce the visible, but to open up another possibility of perception.

In these works, the intimate and the collective coexist, the contemporary and that which seems to come from long before. The archetype remains, but its image changes. Each era embodies it anew, and each gaze can recognize something different in it.

To paint being is not to fix it or define it. It is to approach that which endures while everything else is transformed.