Artist Statement

“My artistic practice arises as a means to explore memory, the passage of time, and the complex relationship we have with our own existence. In each work, I superimpose layers of sensations, both consciously and unconsciously retained, that continue to persist within me. These layers function as fragments of memories and emotions that emerge during the creative process, evoking traces of history and wear, and allowing me to establish a deeply intimate visual narrative.

The pictorial gesture becomes an extension of body and psyche, a tool to access what often remains hidden in lived experience. Painting emerges as a space for inquiry and contemplation, where the visual enters into a silent dialogue with the emotional. Within this dialogue, my aim is to unravel the folds of individual and collective memory, acknowledging the fragility of time and the way it shapes our perception of ourselves and the world around us.

My prior visual trajectory in cinema and photography provides a rich aesthetic, disciplinary, and technical repertoire, which I recognize as the foundation of sustained plastic maturity. In this continuum, painting appears as the space where all my formal and existential experiences converge.

I aspire for my works to be preserved with the rigor of a museographic object: conceived to endure, to dialogue with institutional space, and to integrate into programs of slow contemplation. My practice does not seek fleeting visibility, but the possibility of enduring presence in collections that understand painting as material thought and expanded memory.”

Short Biography

Felipe Schiffrin is a visual artist with 28 years of experience in photography and cinematography, recognized for his aesthetic sensitivity and technical rigor. For the past three years, he has focused his practice on painting.