Inner abysm

Artist

Victor Manzanal

Víctor Manzanal is a sculptural artist whose practice is articulated around a deep reflection on the limits of human nature and its contact zones with the animal, the vegetal, and the inert. Through direct engagement with organic materials and a sculpture laden with symbolism, he investigates transformation processes —such as fossilization, petrification, or radioactive footprints— in which the living body becomes a vestige, a lasting inscription, and a paradox between the ephemeral and the permanent. A graduate in Fine Arts with a specialization in sculpture, his work is interested in intermediate states and non-definitive forms, where identity is presented as unstable and mutable. This tension between life and matter extends to a constant dialogue with digital visual culture, from which he extracts references and metaphors to transfer them to the physical plane, altering the usual perceptual order. His works thus inhabit a space between the corporeal and the absent, the tactile and the latent, generating an ambiguous unease that avoids closed meanings. In recent years, his work has generated growing interest in the national and international art circuit, notably his participation in Art Miami, Art Madrid, and the first edition of ENEAS. Through formal repetitions and gestures that verge on duplication, Manzanal experiments with a reflection on memory, the desire for persistence, and resistance to oblivion, proposing from matter a way of inhabiting that which disappears.