At the foundation of my artistic research lies a question: can a single letter contain the origin of an image?
From this reflection comes the term Genomism, which I use to define the language running through my work.
The reference to the genome is intentional. Just as DNA contains the information required to construct an organism, each letter represents, for me, a primary particle: a minimal element capable of generating forms, identities, and presences.
I do not use letters to compose sentences or communicate readable messages. My work does not belong to text-based art in its traditional sense, because the word is not the final content of the artwork.
The letter is matter. It is structure. It is an original visual code.
The letters are applied and layered one by one, until they lose their alphabetical function and become traces of experiences, emotions, memories, relationships, and silences. They are not meant to be read, but observed for their ability to construct an image.
From close up, the artwork appears as a dense and seemingly indecipherable chaos. Letters overlap, interrupt one another, and merge. It is a complexity that reflects everyday life: voices, encounters, wounds, desires, and memories accumulating without any immediately visible order.
But when we step back, something changes.
The chaos begins to organize itself. The individual units stop asserting themselves separately and take part in the emergence of a broader form. A face, a body, a presence slowly appears from the layering.
It is precisely through this change in distance that the core of Genomism reveals itself: from close up, we perceive the complexity of existence; from afar, we try to reconstruct its meaning.
Our identity, after all, works in much the same way. It is not shaped by a single event, but by the accumulation of countless particles: words we have heard, experiences we have lived through, people we have met, relationships we have formed, and memories that continue to act within us.
Genomism does not attempt to simplify this complexity. It embraces it and transforms it into an image.
Each letter retains its individuality, yet only through its relationship with the others can it generate a presence. As in an organism, no element truly exists alone: meaning emerges through connection, layering, and the balance between fragment and whole.
My work therefore begins with the letter, but it does not end with the word.
It begins with the sign and moves toward identity.
It begins with chaos and searches for order.
It begins with a minimal particle and constructs something that may resemble the complexity of the human being.
Genomism is the name I give to this process: constructing images through the visual DNA of letters.
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