«My work is a kind of ‘atmospheric’ state of painting as an artistic ‘act’ fact. A kind of abstraction of its own language.

It is precisely in those unrendered spaces-empty, residual, uncomfortable-where something like a less codified experience of the real seems to persist. Not necessarily more authentic, but less managed. (Authenticity is another word that has been rendered, that appears in the options menus, that is selected as one selects the level of difficulty: easy, medium, authentic. And it no longer means anything, or it means the opposite, or it means exactly what the system needs it to mean to keep working). Maybe that's where something not completely foreseen can still happen: a minimal resistance, or if you want to be a little more optimistic - and I don't know if I want to, because optimism has also been rendered, it also appears in the tutorials, it's also part of the ‘game’ - the germ of another form of sensitivity.

I like to think -although I suspect that this idea also has some self-justification, that every artist's idea about his own work has some self-justification, that self-justification is the background operating system of artistic discourse, that we cannot talk about what we do without installing that patch that turns practice into theory and theory into defense- that my artistic practice moves along those margins. Not to fill them. To make visible that they are there. That there are areas where language does not quite reach, where representation gets stuck, where the graphic engine shows its limits in the form of glitch, of emptiness, of a black screen that is not black but color #000000, which is a rendered black, which is the black that the system allows, which is not the black of the night or the black of the well or the black of the ink that spills and cannot be controlled. And that in that gap, in that slight discomfort - the discomfort of not knowing if what you see is bug or feature, of not knowing if the artist failed or the system failed or you failed to look - something like art can still happen. Not art. Something like it.

The distinction matters. Or it does not matter. Or it matters exactly to the extent that it doesn't matter, to the extent that we keep talking about it without knowing what it is, to the extent that talking without knowing is the only form of talk left when everything else has been optimized, rendered, explained, guided to its correct conclusion in the multiple-choice exam that mass culture administers History as if it were the only test that matters.» _Juan Miguel Pozo