Under the innocent appearance of fables featuring LIVE animals, these images subtly allude to the house as an allegory of the inner self, in which the animal representations act as symbols, and visual metaphors, instinctive lost in the labyrinthine burrows unconscious. The house has symbolised the inner being since ancient times. It is a living example of its allegorical representation. This work is set inside abandoned houses, in corners that have seen the passing of time, that are dusty and full of cobwebs... Neglected places are intervened upon: the animals inhabit and the spaces take on life. I am interested in the unconscious load that these animals bring to bear – a huge symbolic potential that, since Palaeolithic cave paintings, has been used as expressive imagery by artists from all cultures and civilizations. “Los que habitan” leads one to a consideration of what is human, of what is profoundly human, by employing connotations we usually apply to animals, which are the main characters in this work. These are images that touches the surrealism, reversing the roles of rationality to place us before our own everyday life and invite us meditate on our intimate relationship with our setting. Pure instinct and reason co-inhabit the real and the figurative with imagination and introspection.
