Symbolic Journey unfolds as a journey through the languages that shaped modern and contemporary sculpture.
Its point of departure is a constant figure — the fish — which, throughout the passage, moves through different artistic ways of thinking, taking on new formal, material and conceptual conditions at each station.
More than illustrating a succession of styles, the project proposes an inquiry into the mutation of a single form. The fish ceases to be merely a recognisable image and becomes, according to the moment, body, structure, fragment, gesture, object, residue, idea or territory. What changes is not only its appearance, but also its status within the work and its relationship with the world.
Each piece enters into dialogue with a different artistic language, not through imitation, but through sculptural reinterpretation. In this way, the journey does not reconstruct an academic history of art, but a personal and critical drift through changing ways of seeing, representing and thinking form.
As the journey advances, the fish moves from nature towards increasingly complex systems of perception, meaning and cultural construction. In some works it appears as trace or remainder; in others it disappears as figure in order to become message, territorial tension or ecological reflection. In that process, sculpture ceases to affirm itself only as object and begins to operate also as thought, experience and reflection on the present.
Symbolic Journey is not a chronology.
It is the logbook of a mutation.
Longbook of a Mutation
It is a working space.
Here the forms of the twentieth century
are not arranged.
They are set into play
From my time.
From my hands.
It moves through it.
It changes.
It adapts.
It remains
in transformation.
Forms are not ordered in time:
they strain against one another.
Here I gather
what resonates with my way of thinking through matter.
Here the pieces are not exhibited:
they are tested.
Some fail.
Others endure.
All remain in process.
I activate relationships.
It moves through the century,
changing without ceasing to be.
Nothing begins from zero.
Everything mutates.