Keywords: Ritual, Divination, Transformation, Materiality & Mysticism

Overview of the installation Santeria de Mama III (2024), ceramic sculptures with seasonal flowers in various sizes, presented at Nap+  2024 in Sloterdijk (NL) with Josilda da Conceição Gallery. Part of the group show with Ruben Ravan and Yang-Ha during.

Presenting La Santería de Mama III for the third time marks an important step in my artistic development, where material experimentation and ritual narratives intertwine. The project builds on earlier iterations shown at Art brussels 2025, Art Rotterdam 2024 and Nap+ 2024, expanding both its symbolic reach and material vocabulary. In this new body of work, the glazed ceramic sculptures evolve toward more ethereal and transient forms, drawing inspiration from the fragile shapes of candles in dialogue with seasonal flowers. This combination allows the works to unfold as ritual stages, spaces in which memory, devotion, and transformation are enacted. The research process delves into the interplay of meaning between ritual practice and natural elements. Materials such as silver, copper, plaster, chalk, sand, charcoal, and stained glass fragments are incorporated alongside ceramics. Each carries its own cultural and symbolic weight, becoming active agents within the installation. Their presence questions how raw materials migrate across histories, rituals, and identities, shaping not only the physicality of the sculptures but also their capacity to hold and transmit meaning. Equally central to this development is the merging of techniques—ceramic glazing with casting, layering with erosion, fragility with resilience. This methodological hybridity opens new insights into the making process itself: the artwork becomes both experiment and offering, an arena where traditional craft and contemporary questions converge.

Santeria Flower I, II, III Ceramic painting, 105 × 148 × 5 mm. Presented at Art Brussels 2024 as part of The KickCancer Collection with Josilda da Conceição Gallery. For its 40th edition, Art Brussels announces the second edition of The KickCancer Collection, an initiative inviting gallery artists to contribute works in support of cancer research.