My work is an exploration of vulnerability and survival. It comes from my own experience and is bound to a difficult history of country: the tropic, in her mountains and valleys, her waters and oceans, her plains and jungles, all make up the land I know. Growth, change, and a permanent presence of violence all play a part in the reality I reference.
Exploiting weaknesses and strengths, my practice is defined by the visual lexicon of nature. Language is information and marks a territory: every space demands its own idiom, each expression a compound of signifiers acting to articulate what is learned and what is remembered. It is poetry; it is emotion; it is experience.
Light is every color, revealing and hiding fictitious yet tangible realities. The works are spaces to be wandered into, to be lived in, and to go beyond those limits and to enter the profound space of the soul.
Every mark, every element exists in a space with its own life and autonomous movement. The essence lies in the encounter with the fragility of passing time and the fundamental nature of matter.
Lorenza Panero, 2024