STATEMENT

In “Bad strategies”, I stage an impossible match: a naked, vulnerable, solitary man sits before a chessboard — usually a symbol of rationality and strategy — which has become a theater of the irrational. Across from him, his opponent: a pink worm. The man has only one piece; the worm has them all. The imbalance is absolute. The challenge, hopeless.

The pink worm, one of the central figures in my artistic imagination, represents the most fragile and authentic emotional core of the human being. It is not a monster to be fought, nor a caricature: it is the part that fears, that doesn’t react, that suffers in silence. It is what remains when the masks fall, when the desire to be “Man” — strong, coherent, victorious — crashes against inner reality.

The work is a visual representation of an eternal and asymmetric inner struggle: the identity we want to construct versus the nature that inhabits us — acknowledging that inner conflict cannot be resolved, only embraced.

“Bad strategies” speaks of identity, self-deception, and acceptance. A visual reflection on how difficult — and human — it is to coexist with what we are, even (and especially) when it does not resemble us at all.