About the artist

This work is built upon a sober, carefully balanced composition in which the tension between everyday objects and their arrangement in space produces an ambiguous, almost symbolic reading. The presence of a psychiatry book, open and stood upright as if occupying a place of authority, contrasts with the figure of a turtle resting on folded papers, introducing a relationship between knowledge, slowness, fragility and resistance. Technically, the image relies on soft lighting, a neutral background and a restrained palette that remove distractions and concentrate attention on the relationship between forms, textures and meanings.

Conceptually, the work raises a reflection on the circulation of knowledge and its limits. The book, emblem of medical discipline and scientific discourse, is presented as an object closed in on itself, while the turtle —symbol of patience, duration and organic memory— introduces a different temporality, slower and more corporeal. The folded papers function as a surface of transit or a precarious support, suggesting instability, archive or displacement. Together, the piece proposes a meditation on the mind, the body and the systems of classification that attempt to order them, hinting at a poetics of the pause set against the rigidity of institutional knowledge.