Cats (Untitled)

In this series of sculptures, the artist turns to the figure of the cat as a symbolic container capable of holding fears and anxieties deeply rooted in human experience. The cat—situated between tenderness and threat, between domestic intimacy and predatory instinct—functions here as an ambiguous and powerful metaphor. Its dual nature makes it an apt vehicle for addressing emotions that are difficult to name or represent directly.
Despite its long history of domestication, the cat still carries in its gaze, its body, and its reflexes the logic of the hunter. This tension between the comforting and the wild becomes the starting point of the work, inviting reflection on human dimensions that also fluctuate between the visible and the unspoken.
The sculptures operate as bodies that contain, displace, or distort the affective burdens of contemporary violence. Within them, latent fears resonate: impulses, behaviors, and dynamics that emerge in contexts where violence—human, structural, emotional—becomes a constant presence. The artist does not use the cat as a literal representation but rather as a device that allows these themes to be approached with a certain softness without diminishing their force.
Thus, the series proposes a reading in which the seemingly tender becomes unsettling and the familiar acquires a disturbing depth. Some of these pieces were also conceived as self-portraits: the artist incorporates fragments of his own clothing to cover the sculptures, inscribing his body and memory into the work. This gesture turns the cat-sculptures into an intimate space where personal vulnerability and collective tensions intersect, reminding us that beneath the layers of domestication—social and personal—our instincts and impulses persist.