During the school year, I would like to explore the processes, experiences, practices, emotions, mistakes, and decisions that led me to the Chapel exhibition.
My goal is not to show how an exhibition is constructed, but rather to share ways of creating tools based on personal life experiences.

Using this exhibition as a starting point is inspiring, allowing me to focus on questions and stimuli that help me discover the internal and external worlds that revolve around my practice, such as the focus of my latest project, which centres on the idea of learning to fall, developing a practice of repetition that seeks to naturally embrace coincidences, from ukemi (the art of falling in martial arts) and sculpture.

Light sculpture, aikido falls, materials and movement can be explored little by little through play, conversation, poetry, sculpture and the discipline of aikido.

I would like to delve deeper into sculptural research, which encompasses the study of psychophysical balance developed in aikido through physical contact between two people and contact between the person and the ground (the fall), in order to conceptualise psycho-pedagogical issues regarding the benefits that arise from the union between disciplines, people and materials.

Over the course of this year, I would like to further explore the practices that I am learning, both through my teachers and through self-study, in my personal discovery of the materials. The central focus of the entire course (as studied in aikido) is the need to continue developing a constant change of mindset, both in the movement of how we think about our body and space, and in our approach to matter and sculpture.

The experimentation with materials that leads to a radical change in the idea of sculpture can be developed by researching and identifying with their own behaviour, such as their sensory relationship, the dynamics of softness, rigidity, tension, suspension or curve.

For example, materials such as cement are collectively perceived as something eternal, very hard and heavy. However, if they are worked into a thin layer on top of a material that is flexible and light due to its technical characteristics (such as those materials used for flying), they can be turned into elastic and light “cement papers” It is like finding strength in vulnerability. I believe that this shift in perception of a material is equivalent to a shift in mentality.

Through practical exercises, readings, and walks with students, I would like to condense the notions and processes I have carried out in recent years. During this time, I have been delving into questions surrounding the human capacity to imagine the environment differently and the power of contact or union to help awaken an awareness of plasticity (aikido).