'Habitar'

In this work, I use the physical sensation of wet clothes as a metaphor for visibility and the experience of fully inhabiting the body. When clothes are dry, they cease to be felt; they become a silent extension of the body, something that exists but can be easily ignored, almost as if invisible. But when they are soaked, everything changes: they become heavy, they cling to the skin, and they make it impossible to ignore every movement; they become uncomfortable.

This painting arises from that transition between existing in a distant way and beginning to recognize oneself through presence. For a long time, my body was something functional but disconnected (although I didn't know it at the time), like something that traversed space without truly inhabiting it. In this work, I wanted to represent the moment when that distance disappears and existence becomes conscious. Where I finally began to manage my Being.

I am not interested in water as a symbol of destruction, but of revelation. Wet clothes do not hide the body; they delineate it, expose it, and make it impossible to deny. Similarly, becoming visible involves confronting the emotional weight of occupying space, of being present, and of acknowledging what was previously dormant or disconnected.

Within the series, this work represents one of the most emotionally intense moments.

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