1. Where were you born and where are you from ?

I am Spanish, I was born in Valencia in 1990.

2. What is your first memory connected to the art world ?

Since my mother is an artist, she painted in the basement of our house. So my first memories related to the art world were watching her painting. I also remember very well the first contemporary art exhibition I went to, an exhibition of James Turrell, at the IVAM Museum in Valencia. My mother also took me there when I was very young.

3. Have you always worked in the art/design field ?

I studied industrial design because my father is an industrial designer and I have always found it an interesting world. I have worked in several design studios in Valencia, London and Mexico City for about 10 years of my life. In the last 5 years I have felt more and more attracted to the art world, so I started to design furniture and sculptural objects, pieces that are in between art and design.

4. What led you to the design creation ?

Since I was very young I have been attracted to the transformation of materials and how man has turned them into commercial objects of different sizes, weights, shapes and properties. I like to spend time in factories and material stores, I spend a lot of time looking at them and imagining how I could modify them to turn them into a functional and sculptural object at the same time.

5. How would you describe your creative process and it influences ?

My creative process is not based on references nor does it have a previous
research stage, my way of approaching design is through intuition. I enjoy
drawing simple lines and ideas in my many notebooks, and over time some of
these strokes become physical objects.

The OBJ series has an aesthetic ambition and puts beauty over function, even
though as a designer I feel comfortable placing these objects somewhere in the
house and always end up feeling the need for them to serve a function.

6. Could you describe a typical day of your work ?

I currently divide my days between EWE, the studio I have with my partners Hector Esrawe and Age Salajoe and my personal practice. In the morning, I enjoy a cup of coffee in the sun, do some exercise and go to our office located in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City. I am constantly visiting the workshops of the artisans I work with. In the afternoons I am usually in my studio located in my home.

7. Why did you choose the specific materials you work with ?

I like working with metal because it acts exactly as you expect, there are no surprises.

8. What are the technical particularities of your creations ?

The OBJ collection is based on simple gestures applied to materials in their
commercial format. With simple manipulations such as cutting and folding, the
raw material is transformed into a utilitarian object.These simple and subtle gestures are usually very technically challenging, I have had to modify many machines and commercial tools to achieve the result I wanted. But my favorite part is that it still looks simple at first glance.

9. What advices could you give to beginning artists who would like to create sculptural design works ?

It is important to have knowledge about materials and industrial processes, the more the better. You also have to work hard and never be a conformist. I produce less than 1% of my ideas, and I think about them a lot, sometimes for years. When an idea seems good but not brilliant, I don’t produce it, I keep working on it until I consider that I have achieved the best of the initial idea.

10. If your works had to belong to a design movement, in which one would you define it ?

minimalism

11. What designers have influenced you ?

Donald Judd, Formafantasma, Peter Karpf.

12. What contemporary designers do you appreciate ?

Nacho Carbonell, Orta Miklos, Vincenzo de Cotiis, Atelier van lieshout

13. What contemporary artists (in any kind of art) have you been inspired by ?

Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, Antony Gormley, José Dávila.

14. If you had to summarize your creations in one word or sentence, what would it be ?

Gesture

Proust Questionnaire with very short answers (one or a few words) :
(The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Other historical figures who have answered confession albums are Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Cézanne…)