One night, as a teenager, I began to play with my name. I took the initials of my given names and surnames and built my new name: FRAM. I loved the deep sound of that M — like a presence whose echo only makes you aware of it once it is gone, once it is no longer there. And I started signing that way.
Years later I came across another FRAM. It was a ship, built to sail to the North Pole, designed to flow with the currents if it became trapped in the ice; a ship made to enter nature and to ally itself with her. It was built by a Norwegian explorer named Fridjoft Nansen, and he named it FRAM. The name of the ship means FORWARD.
If you ever go to Norway, on the Bigdøy peninsula, you can visit the FRAM museum. On its hull you can see the marks of its journey, the scars left by the fist of ice when it held the ship in its grip in 1982, as it drifted slowly like a compass needle toward its dark polar destiny.
In my dreams sails a ship whose name is me.
BA in Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Málaga.
Master’s in “Interdisciplinary Artistic Production”. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Málaga.
VEGETATIVO. Amigos del Jardín de la Concepción. Málaga.
WORK IN PROGRESS. Resident artists with grants from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Málaga. Faculty exhibition hall. Málaga. October 2014.
MEMBRANAS 2.0. Video, body and mind. Sala de exposiciones de la Muralla. University of Málaga Rectorate. Opening, 18 November 2013.
SONGS FROM SPACE. Sculpture exhibition by current and former students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Málaga. Rectorate exhibition hall. University of Málaga. 30 September to 31 October.
ARTJAEN 2013. 5th International Art Fair. March 2013. Jaén.
EL OJO EFERVESCENTE. Final-year project exhibition, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Málaga. Centro Cultural Provincial de Ollerías. Málaga.
ON DOUBLE LA MISE À SAC. 3rd and 4th acquisition fund of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Málaga. Rectorate exhibition hall. University of Málaga. 31 May to 30 June.
Invasores del Espacio. Centro Cívico Diputación de Málaga. Málaga.
Entrelíneas. Galería Gades. Chiclana. October 2008 – January 2009.
FERIA DE ARTE 08. Castillo de Santa Catalina. Cádiz. July.
X-love. “Manuel Alés” Municipal Gallery. La Línea.
Vigilancia y Control. Fundación Arte y Naturaleza. Madrid.
“Paréntesis” Hall and Baluarte de la Candelaria. UCA and Cádiz City Council.
El fondo de toda profundidad. Galería Magda Bellotti. Madrid.
La sombra traslumbrada. Galería Magda Bellotti. Algeciras.
Emergentes. Galería Magda Bellotti. Algeciras.
Hotel y Arte. Seville. Galería Magda Bellotti.
New Art. Barcelona. Galería Magda Bellotti.
ADUANA X. Cádiz.
Un mundo felix. Universidad Popular de Jaén.
Traducción-tradición. University of Málaga exhibition hall.
Galería Benot. Cádiz.
Cover illustration for the Notebook by Gustavo Martín Garzo, published by the Aula de literatura José Cadalso.
Cover illustration for the Notebook by Andrés Sánchez Robayna, published by the Aula de literatura José Cadalso.
Paisajes de la con-fusión. Paper published in the proceedings of Arte, Industria y Territorio 2. Fundación Beulas. Teruel.
Atlas de un viaje hacia dónde. Paper given at the seminar Las fronteras del arte. Coord.: Prof. Loli Barroso. UCA Summer Courses, San Roque.
Resident Artist Grant. Faculty of Fine Arts, Málaga.
1st Art and Illness Awards.
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Málaga
Centro Cívico de la Diputación Provincial de Málaga
ECCO. Cádiz
Fundación Arte y Naturaleza. Madrid
University of Cádiz
Universidad Popular de Jaén
San Roque City Council