Painting Matter emerges from a sustained engagement with material as a living language. Between 2021 and 2024, my work centred on the reuse of discarded materials — cardboard, packaging paper, fragments of wood — collected through what I called material harvesting. These remnants of the everyday became the ground of my paintings: surfaces built by layering, tearing, and recomposing, where colour, texture, and residue held the memory of touch.
This was not a formal choice but a way of thinking through matter — an attempt to sense how materials speak, transform, and resist disappearance. Time itself entered the work as a material dimension: the time of collecting, soaking, drying, dyeing, waiting. The studio became both laboratory and shelter, a place where processes unfolded at the rhythm of the materials themselves.
Each work arose as an assemblage, a field of correspondences between found and made forms. The symbols that began to appear — the labyrinth, the box, the ladder, the eye, fragments of text — were not representations but thresholds. They marked the movement between interior and exterior, between the visible and the latent. These same symbols would later migrate into Sensitive Ontologies, where they continue to operate as relational figures — diagrams of perception and thought.
The paintings are matteric, tactile, and layered; they belong to the space between painting, object, and document. Through them I sought to question what remains of the human gesture when it is absorbed into the material flow of the world. The act of painting became a practice of care — of attending to what has been used, abandoned, or overlooked — and of rearticulating it within new constellations of meaning.
If Sensitive Ontologies unfolds as a cartography of relation, Painting Matter is its ground: an earlier stage of inquiry where the world was still approached through the material surface of things — where thought began, quite literally, by touching.
Home. Oil paint, and collage on cardboard box mounted on board, 80 x 80 cm, 2023
The Box in Context, oil paint on cardboard box and collage mounted on found frame., 40 x 30 cm, 2022
Box in context 2, oil paint and collage on found frame, 44,5 x 32 cm, 2022
Laberinto. Oil paint and collage on found frame, 65 x 50 cm, 2022
Chaos / History. Oil paint and collage on assembled panels, 140 x 92 cm, 2021