Koilos

In this series of backlit bas-reliefs, the sculpture transcends its nature as an inert object to become a living organism. The artist intervenes on the stone surface not to decorate it, but to generate a true "skin": an organic texture that challenges the mineral's ancestral rigidity, transmuting it into something pulsating and biological.

The series' title, Anima Mundi, evokes the ancient philosophical vision in which the world is not a collection of inanimate objects, but a single living organism driven by a universal life force. The work interprets this concept through the indissoluble synthesis of matter and light, elements that act here in an ontological symbiosis: if stone constitutes the body, the physical structure, solid and tactile, light represents its soul, the breath that awakens it from its mineral slumber. Without light, stone remains silent; without stone, light loses form and boundaries. It is in this encounter that matter ceases to be an inorganic substance and becomes a creature. Through the movement and chromatic variations released by backlighting, the sculpted texture seems to breathe. Shadows move between the cracks in the stone as if a lifeblood were flowing through them, transforming the slab into a sensitive membrane. The work is no longer a static object to be observed, but a vital process in progress, where light pierces the material to reveal its deepest and most dynamic essence.

Philosophically, these bas-reliefs celebrate the moment when the inorganic becomes organic, offering the observer the experience of a matter that, finally possessed by a breath of light, ceases to be a mere "thing" and becomes a "being".