Siempre a tu Arrimo

Siempre a tu Arrimo confirms the artist’s ongoing exploration of textile formats and techniques, merging them into his distinctive sculptural sensibility. A Suzuki Gladius SFV650 motorcycle seat serves as an unexpected canvas where symbols of protection, devotion and love are gracefully materialized through glass beads and sequins.

Entirely hand-embroidered by the artist, the work brings together traditional techniques with more experimental, cross-disciplinary approaches. Drawing from histories of spiritual textile-making, the piece resonates with current conversations around craft and material knowledge, providing a tangible framework to examine time, labour and meaning.

The work’s title references an intimate space echoed through a constellation of motifs that unfold across its deep blue surface. Influenced by religious embroidery rooted in the artist’s own Catholic background, the composition features a central cross anchored by a handmade glass bead produced by the artist in Venice, surrounded by four-headed creatures, garlands, branches, flowers, spirals, and a prominent tree of life. These elements come from a wide personal visual archive, ranging from medieval manuscripts and Byzantine mosaics to Spanish traditional costumes, including the 1865 Traje de Charra from the Infanta Isabel encountered at the Museo del Traje in Madrid.

Suspended in space and removed from its original function, the motorcycle seat becomes a cultural vessel that cuts across space and time. Its transformation continues a line of inquiry present in recent works, where religious aesthetics intersect with popular, contemporary worlds. In Siempre a tu Arrimo, this dialogue is further developed as decorative excess and tactile intimacy challenge traditionally gendered domains —mechanical masculine vs textile feminine— and reconfigure them into a singular, talismanic presence.

Balancing historical reverence with speculative transformation, the work proposes an object that is at once intimate and aggressive, devotional and futuristic, grounded in tradition yet continuously exploring new symbolic possibilities.

Siempre a tu Arrimo, 2026
Suzuki Gladius SFV650 motorcycle seat, textile, glass beads, sequins.
80x33x12cm, 80x33x31cm (with stand)