Animation
2026
2026
Hydrus is a digital animation developed for An Ecology of Beasts, a contemporary bestiary featuring reinterpretations of mythical medieval creatures. Depicted in diaphonized form -a chemical preservation technique to render a specimen’s soft tissues transparent while highlighting bones and cartilage - this small serpent lets itself be swallowed whole, then eats its way out of its host’s stomach, ensuring a devastating internal rupture and victory.
Opening Saturday 24th January at TXT Studio (Milan, Italy)
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Installation
2025
2025
“In my work, the use of quicklime—intimately linked to the body—draws from the Andalusian social imaginary and is presented as a patina that is paradoxically protective and caustic, with the power to preserve something it in time or make it disappear. An alchemical agent, capable of transforming shadows into light and monstrosity into beauty and vice versa.”
The two-year research is gathered in the publication The Quicklime Paradox: Memory and Erasure in Andalusia, and was presented at the DAE Graduation Show during Dutch Design Week 2025 in the form of an installation featuring two artefacts - Calados Hasta los Huesos and Under the Limelight.
The Quicklime Paradox was developed during the social design MA at Design Academy Eindhoven and was awarded Cum Laude.
Head of programme: Nadine Botha
Thesis supervisor: Vera Sacchetti
Sculpture
2025
2025
Calados Hasta los Huesos (Soaked to the Bone) highlights the open wound left by Spain’s historical Pact of Silence which whitewashed the crimes perpetrated during the White Terror against more than 114,000 victims who remain missing. In these crimes of enforced disappearance, quicklime’s caustic properties were used to bury and dissolve the bodies of political and gender dissidents in unmarked mass graves, accelerating decay down to the bone and rendering them unidentifiable.
Inspired by the symbolism of queer poet Federico García Lorca, whose skeletal remains are still of unknow whereabouts, the sculpture stages a slow cycle of corrosion and preservation -mirroring the tension between quicklime’s duality, its violent legacy and its use as limewash in the aftercare of the dead; an annual ritual in the cemeteries of rural Andalusia, where niches are limewashed as a mourning tradition and form of maintenance.
Marking the 50th anniversary of Spain’s transtion to democracy, Calados Hasta los Huesos was presented publicly during Dutch Design Week 2025, at the DAE Graduation Show. (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Production assistance: Shao-Chun Hsu
Artefact
2025
2025
The resulting projections depict gender-bending chimeras and spectral bodies that embrace queer monstrosity, flickering between presence and absence. A tactical projection device conceived to temporarily occupy and take over public façades and architectural surfaces, enabling a luminous space for trans representation, memory and storytelling. Lurking in suspension above ground, these shimmering apparitions are set to haunt the space as long as trans* lives remain under threat and justice remains unresolved.
The first takeover was carried out at the façade of a watchtower in Cádiz, popularly known as la Bella Escondida. The project was later presented to an international audience in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week 2025, at the DAE Graduation Show. (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Model and performer: Martyrio / Marty Van Walré
Production assistance: Guoda Sulskyte
Phantasmagoria at Cour des Capucins (1797)
3D scan of Martyrio’s body (2025)
Installation
2024
2024
Limestone is abundant in the landscape of the White Villages in southern Spain. Its use as whitewash to purify the façades of houses and cemeteries was once an annual ritual in the threshold between the public and private, traditionally performed by women. As this custom fades, the memorial installation shines a light on limewashing as a form of domestic work and a mourning ritual, evidencing the gendered division of labour. In the documentary film, the material journey of limestone -extraction, burning, slaking- serves as the running thread and reveals stories from times of epidemics and war to moments of care and conviviality amongst neighbours.
Encalar aims to bridge the gap between past and future, fostering dialogue on how design can act as a conduit for the preservation of intangible cultural practices as future heritage, while emancipating them from outdated gender roles. Ultimately, the installation highlights the value of the oral traditions and hands that maintain our built environments.
The installation was exhibited during Dutch Design Week 2024 at DeFabriek. (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
The documentary film premiered at LAB-1 cinema (Eindhoven, Netherlands) on the opening night of Melted Film Festival, curated by Geo-Frames x Future Number Five
Performance
2024
2024
Slicing with a surgical precission through a curated menu of symbolic and edible cakes, the performance exposes the ties between Western gender construction and the systemic violence against trans* people and those who do not conform to the binary.
Live deconstruction of a concept cake representing the rigid societal construction
of the gender binary within Western culture
A wobbly, jiggly treat with a kick of alcohol that stirs up how medical practices often set the stage for binary thinking
An explosive virtual cake that questions the digital footprint of the newborn, evidencing how identity isassigned and reinforced online before the baby is even born.
A sculptural dessert that reveals the systemic violence lying beneath the sweet surface.
The performance was first shown at the collective symposium Around These Tables in KOELHUIS Immersive Experience Hub (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
The project was presented again as a nine-day installtion during Dutch Design Week 2024 and performed on four nights as part of both the public and seasonal programmes of United-C (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
Designed and produced in collaboration with Otti Ferraris, Andreas Berzdorf and Cakethingzzz.
Artefact
2025
2025
A set of tactical handfans for bodies in flux
Abanicle merges traditional abanico craftsmanship with transhuman logic. Departing from the Spanish abanico (handfan) as a folkloric symbol of femininity and an extension of the body in flamenco performance, Abanicle is a chimeric reinterpretation for bodies in flux.
In dialogue with the mythical and biomechanical themes of the exhibition “Bionicle Imaginarium Park”, Abanicle is conceived as an articulated handfan inspired by the anatomy of gargoyles and modular systems. The three main components of a traditional handfan -Varillaje, país, clavillo- are preserved yet transformed into blade-like forelimbs, mimicking the skelletal structure of winged creatures. The result is a tactical artefact oscillating between a coreographic instrument and a defensive weapon, ornament and armour.
Exhibited as part of Bionicle Imaginarium Park in Okay Space (Athens, Greece)
Photoshoot model and styling: Engendro / Ale Figueroa