'Inercia'

In this work, I use a completely everyday action to address automatism from a more intimate and personal place. Brushing your teeth is a gesture we repeat every day to the point of doing it without thinking, and it was precisely there that I found something I was interested in exploring: the body's capacity to continue functioning even when the mind is far away, or absent.

The painting arises from that feeling of existing on autopilot, of going through mechanical routines while emotionally disconnected. I'm interested in how certain domestic actions, seemingly insignificant, can reveal internal states difficult to explain in words. I don't see this scene as a simple act of hygiene, but as a silent reflection of exhaustion, repetition, and incomplete presence.

Within the series, this work represents one of the points most closely linked to automatism: that state in which actions continue to occur, even though emotionally one is not fully present.

On the other hand, this painting was the first I'd done in a long time, and in a way, it also stemmed from a need to honor myself, to acknowledge my scars, and to give form to that Oscar who continues to work on making himself visible and allowing himself to exist in front of himself and others.

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