“The central inspiration of my piece is bringing together different references, as if it were a collage, which is very similar to how Gaudí́ worked. Although everyone thinks that Gaudí was a great visionary, who did things never seen before, he was actually nothing more than a collage artist, let me explain. Gaudí was a great architect and his creations are incredible, but it doesn’t make them any less incredible to see or discover that each of his works is an accumulation of inspirations from other cultures and nature. For me, personally, this is the part of his work that interests me the most, perhaps because I see it as being close to the way I work. Whenever I am asked about my references, I usually answer that my references are my surroundings, the design of the magazines I read as a child, advertising, store signs, two buildings with contrasting colors, the arrangement of sweets and snacks in a kiosk.

In one way or another, the same thing happened to Gaudí, he liked to look at books from other cultures and many of the things he saw in them about architecture in other places he applied to his own designs. He also drew inspiration from nearby nature, like the shapes created by erosion in the mountain of Montserrat.

Gaudí is, therefore, taking references and inspiration from what he sees in books and nature around him and creating his own language. A language where we can see, broadly speaking, a combination of modernism, orientalism and naturalism. 


I have worked in the same way, inspired by his shapes, the ones that I find more interesting. This interest ranges from the simple visual attraction to the shape, to the memories or experiences that I have associated with it. My work is presented as a collage of those elements, giving them a new meaning, a new twist, incorporating them into my own language. 

My piece also intends to maintain that combination of modernism, orientalism and naturalism, but from a more modern point of view.”