The first self-portrait I remember doing was at the age of 18. I was in the Faculty of Fine Arts, and after several classes dedicated to the portrait technique, I decided to continue practicing when I got home. However, I had no model, so I placed myself in front of the mirror and, in that instant, I became the model and protagonist of my work.
Since then, I have not stopped painting myself. The self-portrait has grown and has been with me for years, reflecting every stage of my life: who I am, who I have been and who I would like to be.
The self-portrait offers me the possibility to inhabit and imagine worlds of my own. It allows me to create scenarios like a still life and immerse myself completely in it: surrounded by flowers, wearing a necklace of green apples or accompanied by my cat. It is a way to live fantasies that I could not experience in reality.
When you look at a self-portrait, that figure that seems to be staring at you is not looking at you. It is looking at itself, reflected in its mirror. Or, if you prefer to look at it another way, she invites you to look “throughout the mirror”...
