Collection of 50 collages in mixed media.
·Collage and mixed markers on paper: 21 × 29 cm.
50 Drawings // 2024
This series of fifty drawings stems from a persistent image that, rather than a memory, has become a daily presence. The scene comes from Villaverde, in the south of Madrid — a place marked by contrasts: accessible housing, but also areas shaped by vulnerability. There, the figure of young people struggling with drug addiction, particularly affected by fentanyl use, has become a common sight. Bodies frozen in poses that defy logic, suspended in a kind of trance that seems to lift them off the ground, detached from the rhythm of the world.
These images, unsettling yet deeply human, triggered in me a need for representation that did not pass through photography. I felt that photographing them would be a form of intrusion, a way of turning their fragility into spectacle. I chose drawing as a medium to approach the scene without invading it — to translate a physical impression into a line, a blot, an obsessive repetition.
Each drawing is a variation on the same pose, a suspended gesture, a formal exploration that becomes an attempt at understanding. The repetition of the line does not aim for accuracy, but for resonance — a way of approaching that reality without judgment, of holding the gaze on what we are socially trained to ignore.
Through drawing, I find a way to dignify that presence, to make visible what daily life erases or normalizes. What remains is the question of that humanity crouched at the margins, and the desire to look at it with care.
Madrid, 2024.
·Collage and mixed markers on paper: 21 × 29 cm.
50 Drawings // 2024
This series of fifty drawings stems from a persistent image that, rather than a memory, has become a daily presence. The scene comes from Villaverde, in the south of Madrid — a place marked by contrasts: accessible housing, but also areas shaped by vulnerability. There, the figure of young people struggling with drug addiction, particularly affected by fentanyl use, has become a common sight. Bodies frozen in poses that defy logic, suspended in a kind of trance that seems to lift them off the ground, detached from the rhythm of the world.
These images, unsettling yet deeply human, triggered in me a need for representation that did not pass through photography. I felt that photographing them would be a form of intrusion, a way of turning their fragility into spectacle. I chose drawing as a medium to approach the scene without invading it — to translate a physical impression into a line, a blot, an obsessive repetition.
Each drawing is a variation on the same pose, a suspended gesture, a formal exploration that becomes an attempt at understanding. The repetition of the line does not aim for accuracy, but for resonance — a way of approaching that reality without judgment, of holding the gaze on what we are socially trained to ignore.
Through drawing, I find a way to dignify that presence, to make visible what daily life erases or normalizes. What remains is the question of that humanity crouched at the margins, and the desire to look at it with care.
Madrid, 2024.