This Valencian painter explores new ways to depict faces, retaining classical references. Her work focuses on portraiture, blurring the boundaries between the physiognomic and cultural identity.

Inspired by multicultural environments and her experience as a woman, she creates portraits that are camouflaged by different components that shape identity, such as striped costumes, floral patterns, masks, outlandish hairstyles and other pieces of clothing. She alternates figuration with expressive abstract brush strokes, where parts of the face, such as the eyes and mouth can be recognised, in combination with less elaborate surfaces.

During her six-month residency at GlogauAIR she has focused on the concept of migrant identity and how social expectations mould one’s behaviour. She works with photos taken of street posters and flea markets and has merged it with evocative memories from her childhood. She starts by creating a digital collage of mixed images to create a fictitious character and get into the painting process.