The city and the urban imagery are the main focus of this artistic investigation. Big cities are where political, economic, and cultural struggles from Latin American societies are best reflected. This is precisely where complex and heterogenous realities take place, which often result in chaotic, violent, and dystopian environments.  

 

  As I explore the city, I look for footprints and remnants that help me define metropolises and their inhabitants.  I collect objects and materials and scan for writings, images, sounds, etc. It is impossible to completely  familiarize yourself with a place only for its fragments, which are represented through imageries that are symbolic conceptions governed by our perception.

 

   In Memorias Urbanas, I incorporate what I find from the streets into the iron sculptures to create spatial forms. They are  metaphors of urban diagrams with routes that overlap, cross, and collide with each other. They also include oppositions and imbalances, which  represent the contrast between opulence and misery, extravagance and hunger, barbarism and civilization that often characterize postmodern Latin American cities.