This is my visual chaos lab: a space where I print, engrave, and intervene garments as acts of symbolic expression. A tactile, visceral, and fragmentary art that emerges from the skin and goes straight to the body.

Estoy cansada de resistir

This work is a small tribute to El Eternauta by Oesterheld and Solano López, reinterpreted from a contemporary and migrant perspective. Inspired by the 2025 audiovisual adaptation, I revisit Juan Salvo as a symbol of resistance in the face of disaster, placing him alongside a new figure: the immigrant delivery worker, inspired by so many Venezuelan and Colombian brothers who, like me, go through the harsh process of migration. Through cold, snow, and linework, I draw bodies that resist, carry, and inhabit a hostile city, weaving a graphic memory where comics, history, and the personal intersect.

Muralism in Isla Maciel

Every time I told someone that I was spending part of my Saturdays painting a mural in Isla Maciel, most people would widen their eyes in concern about that place, located across the Riachuelo near La Boca. How many places have we missed out on because of other people’s eyes and comments? This place is called an island without really being one—perhaps because it is cut off from the city’s flow and surrounded by old factories that time has left to decay.

I met people who want to become a meeting point between water and land, between being distant yet connected, and above all, in a constant search to be visible and to exist.**

Planning and design by: Lean Frizzera and Gerardo Montes de Oca

Textil and wearing experimentation

I work on black garments as if they were hidden canvases. I use textile bleach as a tool of revelation: I don’t add color, I strip it away. Each stroke is a precise wound that transforms the fabric into a living, burned, vibrant surface. These pieces blend the symbolic with the visceral, the ornamental with the urban. I’m drawn to what is erased, what resists, what endures. Printing with bleach is my way of drawing with time.

Monomito del dolor

Inspired by the existentialist work of Arthur Schopenhauer, with expressionist references and an interplay of physical and digital immersive interaction, I seek to immerse the audience in a contemplative moment around pain and its constant presence in our lives.

 

The work draws on the main archetypes of liberation: the genius, representing the inward, contemplative gaze upon one’s own wounds in the body; and the altruist, representing the outward gaze, where wounds heal through connecting with the suffering of others.

 

The images created to evoke these sensations are rooted in my own lived experiences and sensory representations of pain, using my body as both stage and medium.

Diseñado por

Luis Carlos Romero León

This is my visual chaos lab: a space where I print, engrave, and intervene garments as acts of symbolic expression. A tactile, visceral, and fragmentary art that emerges from the skin and goes straight to the body.

Estoy cansada de resistir

This work is a small tribute to El Eternauta by Oesterheld and Solano López, reinterpreted from a contemporary and migrant perspective. Inspired by the 2025 audiovisual adaptation, I revisit Juan Salvo as a symbol of resistance in the face of disaster, placing him alongside a new figure: the immigrant delivery worker, inspired by so many Venezuelan and Colombian brothers who, like me, go through the harsh process of migration. Through cold, snow, and linework, I draw bodies that resist, carry, and inhabit a hostile city, weaving a graphic memory where comics, history, and the personal intersect.

Muralism in Isla Maciel

Every time I told someone that I was spending part of my Saturdays painting a mural in Isla Maciel, most people would widen their eyes in concern about that place, located across the Riachuelo near La Boca. How many places have we missed out on because of other people’s eyes and comments? This place is called an island without really being one—perhaps because it is cut off from the city’s flow and surrounded by old factories that time has left to decay.

I met people who want to become a meeting point between water and land, between being distant yet connected, and above all, in a constant search to be visible and to exist.**

Planning and design by: Lean Frizzera and Gerardo Montes de Oca

Textil and wearing experimentation

I work on black garments as if they were hidden canvases. I use textile bleach as a tool of revelation: I don’t add color, I strip it away. Each stroke is a precise wound that transforms the fabric into a living, burned, vibrant surface. These pieces blend the symbolic with the visceral, the ornamental with the urban. I’m drawn to what is erased, what resists, what endures. Printing with bleach is my way of drawing with time.

Monomito del dolor

Inspired by the existentialist work of Arthur Schopenhauer, with expressionist references and an interplay of physical and digital immersive interaction, I seek to immerse the audience in a contemplative moment around pain and its constant presence in our lives.

 

The work draws on the main archetypes of liberation: the genius, representing the inward, contemplative gaze upon one’s own wounds in the body; and the altruist, representing the outward gaze, where wounds heal through connecting with the suffering of others.

 

The images created to evoke these sensations are rooted in my own lived experiences and sensory representations of pain, using my body as both stage and medium.