"Beings that were once human" is a series of 49 oil paintings on photography, digitally manipulated, with variable dimensions between 20x15cm and 30x20cm.
It derives from the research on archive images, and has its starting point the concept of ugly, monstrous and grotesque, but it is inscribed in a post-structuralist language of appropriation, re-signification of the image, and reaction to the overproduction of images. At the same time seeks "the banal monstruosity" quoting the philosopher Jose Gil, and which comes after centuries of representation of fantastic beings - from mythology to teratology, without forgetting Freud and his influence in questioning the humanity of contemporary man.
There is a play between past and present, photography, digital manipulation and painting - from which arises an image that is neither new nor old, that already existed before existing, as in an extension of time, space and matter.
"Beings that were once human" brings together a series of ideas and concepts present in my body of work, such as the attempt to inventory the world, present in the work of Borges or Pérec, the "immense dictionaries" of Barthes, the archive and library of W. Benjamin, and the connection with a spirituality of the order of the sacred, as Krzizstof Pomian says about invisibility: "It is situated in its own time, or outside the passage of time, in eternity itself."