It is not easy to live on an edge, Jujuy is the limit towards the inside of a country that is its own and strange, but at the same time, it is the border with a nation that inhabits it on the skin.

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       Ekecos, amulets, mischicos, virgins and markets, symbolic objects cut out of a culture and region marked by their pre-Columbian heritage, five centuries of Catholic dominance and contemporary values.  This complex mixture generates in this Jujuy town a perspective of its own culture, being induced to generate a cultural amalgam, a syncretism in constant mutation of completely antagonistic and superimposed meanings.

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       In what way should I position myself as an artist within this symbolic framework without falling into the demagoguery of the telluric or picturesque picture, how to adequately transcribe that mixture that I place as a point of reference when starting my creative process on which I install myself to work? With which elements of this Andean culture do I identify myself and which can define me as a contemporary subject?

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       It is impossible for me to deny these presences and how they cross my production: the vibrant colors, sounds of a dissonant cumbia, the smell of cumin and such bizarre, bright, blinding “kitch” elements that we find in a classic and traditional market fair. Jujuy. Impressing me, not only because of their distant origin, (China, Taiwan, Korea or simply our greatest reference: Bolivia), but also because of the resignification to which they are subjected. The stealth act of appropriation that this people makes of them then occurs, placing them at the service of this great Andean group, as if they had always existed or belonged to this land.

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       It is within this space in continuous transition, from where I morphologically explore the various existing Iconic objects, reinventing or redefining this environment from humor and irony as the main tools of perception, not as an end in itself, it is the energy that guides my formal research, translating situations, moods, experiences and metaphors, building from this iconoclastic gaze a subliminal link towards certain artistic conventions.

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