MEMBRANES

My current practice is centered on the creation of layers or “skins” of paint that I produce on isolated surfaces and later transfer and adhere to a final support. Although these paint skins are created through different procedures and take on formally distinct appearances, they all share the same underlying logic: to displace paint, as a material, from its representational function and transform it into an autonomous element that contains the physical memory of the process.

The conceptual content of these works is closely tied to their own execution. The process begins by painting on large nonporous surfaces, mostly plastic, which I previously deform, stretch, or wrinkle, exploring their own limits as a material. After applying thick layers of acrylic paint onto these surfaces I peel off the resulting films and transfer them onto the canvas, preserving the tensions, folds, and deformations generated during the earlier process while maintaining the flatness of the painted surface.