My paintings are full of a neo-surrealist queerness and a sense of existentialism that transcend our customary ways of seeing reality.  They depict beings that overcome their fragmentation through their transfiguration; entities that transcend time and space as they create a link between the internal and external universe. There is a constant drift between abstraction and figuration in my body of work. The relationship between the human body and spirit is explored through volumetric abstractions that float, twist and expand throughout the composition. The anatomical references merge into each other creating ambiguous forms and the eyes of the spectators are opened to a new realm of possibilities.

My work of art has always promoted equity and functions as a hopeful invitation to inclusive and harmonious coexistence. They are images of luminous forms that emerge to delight us and suggest introspection.

Héctor Rafael