Habitar el cuerpo colectivo is a painting based project that emerges from the desire to establish a more intimate relationship with the surrounding world. Through painting, it explores ways of inhabiting the present grounded in attention, sensitivity, and connection to living systems.

In a context shaped by acceleration and fatigue, the project positions itself as a form of gentle resistance: a practice of slowing down, listening, and reactivating a more open and permeable perception of the environment.

The notion of a collective body frames the work as a continuity between the human body and nature. Rather than simply acknowledging our belonging to the natural world, it proposes understanding ourselves as part of an interdependent system shaped by mutual influence. Nature thus appears as an extension of our existence: both refuge and untamed force.

The project unfolds through a parallel between inhabiting the world, the canvas, and space itself. Each painting operates as an organism, and the body of work as an expanded body: a constellation of images where the intimate and the shared intersect. Vegetal elements—stems, shoots, flowers—act as presences that expand perception and activate a sensory experience.

From this perspective, the project suggests a shift from the individual toward the collective, questioning how we inhabit shared space and what forms of relation emerge when we understand ourselves as part of the same body.

Photo by Juan Miguel Ponce

10 Sentidos Festival. Naturaleza Viva Vol. 02
Valencia, Spain · 2026

Habitar el cuerpo colectivo was selected for the Professional Programme of the 2026 10 Sentidos Festival as part of Naturaleza Viva Vol. 02. Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, the festival focused on the relationship between art, ecology and collective responsibility, positioning the live arts as a space for imagining new ways of inhabiting the world.

The installation presents an arboreal landscape seen from below. As the viewer looks up towards the tree canopy, the interlacing branches envelop the field of vision, creating an immersive experience in which perception expands and dissolves into the continuity of the forest.

This work is part of an ongoing investigation that runs throughout my artistic practice. Although each piece exists as an autonomous work, they all belong to the same mental landscape: a continuous and inexhaustible territory where the individual and nature are no longer understood as separate entities. The landscape emerges as an extension of the body, reminding us that we are made of the same matter and share the same condition.

This sense of continuity is expressed through the large-scale format and the use of unstretched canvas. The lightness of the material introduces a feeling of suspension and expanded time, standing in contrast to the accelerated pace and fragmentation that define contemporary experience.

At the same time, the landscape is divided into separate sections, disrupting the linearity of the composition and suggesting that every fragment of the environment we perceive belongs to a greater whole. The installation invites viewers to reflect on our place within the natural world and to re-establish a relationship of attentiveness, reciprocity and attunement with nature.

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