Dignity presented at ART3F Monaco 2026

From September 11 to 13, my work Dignity was presented at ART3F Monaco 2026, held at the Chapiteau de Fontvieille in Monaco.

The work was shown in audiovisual format in the Effetto Arte space, as part of the programme surrounding the International Prize Renoir – The Great Interpreter of Art.

Dignity is a mixed-media work measuring 128.5 × 87 cm and forms part of my series Female Portraits: Looking Back to the Past, a project in which I establish a contemporary dialogue with Joaquín Sorolla through the real stories of women living today.

As with the other works in the series, Dignity began with a person and her story. My process does not start with a predefined concept for which I then look for a model. It begins with the encounter. From there, photography, digital painting, Fine Art printing and manual intervention gradually construct the final image.

Presenting Dignity in Monaco was particularly meaningful because it allowed the work to enter a new international context while remaining connected to the central idea behind the series: to make individual stories visible through portraiture without separating the image from the person who made it possible.

I was able to visit ART3F Monaco during my stay in the Principality and see Dignity presented there. Seeing one of my works in a different context always changes the way I look at it. The work leaves the studio and begins to establish its own relationship with another place and another audience.

The presentation in Monaco took place one day before I received the International Prize Renoir – The Great Interpreter of Art in Cannes, on September 12, adding another chapter to several days in which my work travelled through different spaces on the French Riviera and Monaco.

For me, however, the starting point remains the same: behind every portrait there is a person, a story and an encounter that came before the image.