Biography

Born in Madrid in 1967, after studying image and sound at the Instituto Oficial de Radio Televisión Española, he moved to Ibiza in the mid 80's, where he trained and worked in different fields such as gardening, landscaping, architecture, carpentry and restoration of classic boats and Mediterranean sailing.

In 2004, he moved to Brazil, to the state of Maranhao, one of the poorest in the country, where 50% of the population had no access to electricity, running water, etc., in a remote village nestled between dunes, bordering a vast desert, the river delta, the river and the sea.

In this small village of traditional fishing and subsistence economy, electricity was almost non-existent and water had to be drawn from a well by hand.

The experiences and situations on the human level, in such an extreme place (forgotten for a century in time), with a community of which you have to be a part in order to survive is what forged all the experiences of learning, knowledge, humanism, joy, pain, fullness, blood and death that make up this work.

In 2020 and as a consequence of the pandemic odyssey, he moves to France to the Cotê d'Azur where this work begins.

Z18 is a concept of my intellectual property that signifies the beauty of things made out of passion.

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