
Pablo
Merchante
Reality is versatile: an illusion learned through our senses that allows us to make sense of what happens and to absorb what we experience. Our senses construct a truth about life, a sense of certainty that can appear overly fixed and reliable. Yet rather than truly understanding what is happening, we often end up deceiving ourselves with only what we are able to decipher.
The images we retain when we perceive an event are merely documentation, like an archive, and may be far removed from the many realities that could exist.
In this sense, my work addresses the subjectivity of the image, the internal information carried by elements, and the relationships between them. It points to how this condition can generate connections that are distant from what might initially be expected.
Forming an image that moves between the figurative and the abstract creates uncertain moments through which sensations foreign to things themselves can be intuited. These moments arise when the iconographic begins to reveal itself as painterly.
Conveying the fleeting nature of an instant, deciphering what cannot be seen and can only be sensed, or seeking surprise behind apparent veracity are the foundations on which I work in the studio.
Elements such as the unfinished and error are me in a pure state. Now, inevitably, they are also part of my work.