“I have been inspired by the nature that dresses my daily life. We live by the Garonne and the river therefore floods our lives. Every day is different, every sunrise, every sunset, infinite colors in the ripples on the water. My dress is a collection of those colors on the surface of the water at dawn. 

I always say that I create spaces to house other spaces. 

In my work, I reflect on the relationship between inhabited space and the construction of an identity. Architecture, the space created by human beings to be inhabited, was my first source of inspiration, but nature can also be that space, that vital environment that constructs the identity of human beings. 

How Gaudí introduced nature into architecture was unprecedented; living with spaces created by Gaudí’s cannot be without consequences. Everything in this project was surprisingly consistent with the concepts that nourish my work. Nature inspires an architecture, which inspires the structure of the dress in which I have finally included, once again, another nature. 

This time, the space in which I have painted was been created by someone else. Others see us according to what we wear; the dress is, in a way, another inhabited space and a testimony of who we want to be. I like this idea of transfer that becomes a reality in art. There is something of Manuel that I have made my own, just as Manuel appropriated a bit of Gaudí, when he created these dresses. There is a bit of all three of us in this work. Someone else will wear it and then there will be four of us”.