Insisting on a point. Reiterating. Repeating the same action every day. Going deeper inside. It is only over time that the change can be seen. 
I have continued working on Sedimentations, Diaries and the Infinite Painting in an essential, minimal and regular process since the early 2000s. It is as though since that time I had circumscribed the banks of a course in which transformation always occurs through a single element: the colour which changes every day. The palette narrows. The colour is always created and modified in the same place: the bowl. And it is with that substance that I perform my daily gesture and paint on my canvases. I started with large formats and dealing with the space with all of my body. However, I have progressively moved towards the small, the little and the concentrated. It is a question of energy being channelled into the density. If my work is made of substance and time, the time of life, I can only acknowledge that this time is fairly short but it is also the longest that a human being can really conceive of and have experience of. It is a dense, restricted, condensed time. 

 

SEDIMENTATIONS

The gesture is always the same: spreading fluid substance on a two-dimensional surface until I’ve covered almost all of it, but not completely. The process declares itself: at the top there is a border that recounts the passage of all the colours that have led me to that last layer. Each “Sedimentation” is like the fragment of a painting that develops over time and that is painted infinitely.

 

DIARY

It is a piece of painted wood, ten-centimetres high and one-metre long. The first colour covers the entire surface, the second colour starts, leaving 2 centimetres of the first colour visible and so on until the entire surface has been covered in this way. The work ends when the available space finishes. The Diary keeps a trace of everything that has been in the bowl and documents approximately three to five months of my time. A diary made of colours rather than words.