His work delves into queer realities through an internal dialogue with his inner child to create a unique universe where reality and fantasy mingle.

This imaginary goes beyond paper and takes shape in other techniques such as weaving and ceramics.

What does a day in your life look like?

I am currently taking a weaving course, so my mornings are spent in class learning to weave and trying to bring my images to textile art.

In my works I talk about introspection and the body, I think that textile art can somehow speak metaphorically about the skin.

In the afternoons I usually go down to my studio at A Casa Dos Cravos, it is a coworking space where I share space with two other artists, Teresa Larios and Sergio Marey.

These months I am preparing with great enthusiasm an exhibition for next year.

How did your interest in art develop?

I think it was a mix of several things. My mother would buy me illustrated books (some quite bizarre, like Macabre Tales by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe)

which I would look through without paying much attention but unconsciously absorbing information.

On the other hand, my grandmother has always been an inspiration to me. She embroiders, knits, crochets… And in general she makes beautiful things, that's where my artistic vein comes from.

Your work combines human, animal and botanical images that create a magical atmosphere. What inspired you to create this visual universe?

I do it with the idea of ​​being able to talk to my inner child, either telling him good or bad things. At the moment I create, we are both living together. It is a fight and mutual healing.

Due to the existence of this small self, a large part of a childish and fantasy imagination comes out that collides with an intention to find out what is happening to him, extrapolate his feelings and structure them on paper.

The use of color in your paintings is very subtle and minimalist. What role does color play in your work?

I increasingly leave color aside, or if I use it, it is ochre colors that the paper itself brings me.

Since I'm focusing more on pencil drawing, I like skin tones because I think it gives a raw and sober touch that is linked to the themes I want to talk about with my work, and I also think it gives greater importance to the image and its meaning.

For drawing I use paper from old books that I buy at O ​​Rocho, a second-hand shop in Lugo. As for paper, I love looking for that worn and old effect.

I'm also starting out in ceramics, although in a very naive way, because I would like to take my imagination to three-dimensional forms.

The truth is that I don't close myself off to any material or technique, I'm always in the process of learning and trying new things.

What would you like to convey with your work?

In the end, what I do is an ode to sensitivity, so I think that's it. I also want to make childhood trauma and queer realities visible, which is not something I do intentionally but it's obviously there and it's important.

It's amazing how enriching it is to have creative friends. I was used to working alone and without any encouragement from other people, but it's totally different, you open up and grow much more in a group.

I'm in the studio and maybe Tere or Sergy will say to me "Why don't you do this like this?", "I'd love for you to do it"… or they'll just say something nice.

And the best thing is that it's reciprocal, I'm very proud of them and happy to have them around.

You've recently published "Teño un caravel no peito", an EP in collaboration with Sergio Marey. How is music different or similar to your more visual work?

Music production is also something that I find very fulfilling. At 9 years old I started at the conservatory playing the violin but I left at 14 because it was becoming quite difficult for me to combine it with high school.

In 2020, with the pandemic, I started using GarageBand with the iPad to produce, seeing musical creation in a totally different way, with more freedom and without the pressure I had at the conservatory.

AVIVALO (Sergio and I) came about because we had been wanting to do something that fused traditional Galician music with a more experimental and electronic sound for a long time.

In the summer we saw a call for the Carballo International Autumn Festival so we took it as a sign to start working on the concept, the songs, the costumes...

We were also selected for the Ourense International Theatre Festival and we took the performance on stage. Now we are thinking about taking it to more places.

What people, artists, books, etc. inspire you to do what you do?

As for plastic art, I would like to name the Japanese painter Takato Yamamoto and Carol Rama, a self-taught Italian artist. The last book I read is "Las malas" by Camila Sosa Villada, and I'm listening to a lot of Molly Drake.

Do you have any second-hand or vintage pieces? If so, which is your favourite?

I have quite a few, but possibly my favourites are some super tacky but gorgeous leopard print trousers, some baggy Cybersurf jeans that I bought at Madame Déficit, (a shop in Lugo)

a pink cashmere shirt from Vintage and Coffee, (a shop in Coruña) and a Cypress Hill t-shirt.

What is your favourite Casa Las Paces item?

It's very difficult for me to choose, but the Miss Sixty jumper. I love the combination of threads in terms of composition and colour, and that it has openings because it frees up the usual use of the garment.

In conversation with Alberto Ovejero by Casa Las Paces 

 

@albertovejero

 

@aviva.lo

 

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