Mauricio Seidel

Mauricio's work was never born from calm. Art came first as an escape; a way of transforming personal pain into something with a life of its own, and what began as a private process has become, over time, a mirror in which many others have found their own stories reflected. At the heart of that work are his grandparents, whose influence runs through everything he makes; from his grandmother, an enduring love of flowers that function not as decoration but as living metaphors, and from his grandfather, a strain of sarcastic melancholy that gives every piece an acidic edge.

Born in Venezuela, his emigration marked a turning point that reshaped his vision entirely. The tensions he carried with him; between self-doubt and wonder, between darkness and the beauty he finds in the people around him; became the ground his work is built on. He doesn't seek to impose a message, only to open a space where people can laugh, cry, and find a little understanding within their own contradictions.