"Starting from a concept of “Organized Crime” as a group of criminals that operate outside the law, in order to profit from illicit activities that are often in public demand; in my personal view, it’s the materialization of dystopia in our society.

I am attracted to the fact that these groups need to express themselves in a graphic way, and use symbols to determine status and to narrate their personal story. I am trying to approach that specific visuality without emitting a verdict, without stating an opinion that could be subject to interpretations, either wrong or accurate. I am simply meditating, approaching that parallel universe from a personal and intellectual perspective. I am interested in observing the individual behind this issue as a cultural result, without satanizing him/her, without condemning him/her.

On the other hand, I wonder “what” and “how” to include all those thoughts in my process of creation. I have always worked with duality, with the opposites inside all of us. With that purpose I’ve used the symbols that we culturally recognize as in the good side of the field and contrast it with specific situations that could bring the worst out of us all. I could use an image of a woman that could look beautiful, fragile, vulnerable, delicate, naive, but also strong, calculating and capable of attacking, ready to defend herself if the time comes. All of those aspects coexisting inside her is what makes her even more human.

This is the first work of the series. I am planning to use known images within the world of Organized Crime in some cases, and in others (as in the case of this piece) I will create my own language; always based on another element that has characterized my work which is the pictorial process, and the prominence of the female image and all that it contains."