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Eva Ibáñez Cano (EMU)

My practice is not oriented toward the production of individual artworks, but toward sustained experience. I work through gesture, ink and performance allowing the stroke to unfold over time.

At the center of my work is what I call The Infinite Stroke. This term does not name a series or a visual motif, but a continuous process. Each work is a momentary interruption of an action that cannot be completed or resolved. The gesture does not begin with the paper nor end when the mark stops; it continues conceptually, carried from one work to the next.

My purpose is to give form to the invisible by allowing the body to act as a channel.I understand the stroke as an event rather than a form — a temporal occurrence shaped by the limits of the body, material resistance, and attention. Because the action is irreversible, each stroke registers a specific state of presence. The works are not composed or corrected; they are executed in a single, unrepeatable movement that records a moment in time. 

My training in Shodō (Japanese calligraphy) brings a rigor to the stroke that does not allow alteration. In dialogue with gestural painting and performance, this order opens toward uncertainty and loss of control. What emerges is not expression, but evidence: traces of a lived action.

I I do not consider my works as finished objects, but as fragments of an ongoing practice. My commitment is to duration and uncertainty, working through presence and allowing the work to arise from pure attention rather than intention.

Performance operates as an embodied extension of the same process. Walking, sustained movement, breathing, and repetition function as ways of preparing and destabilizing the body, allowing the gesture to move from conscious intention toward a state of embodied awareness. Writing accompanies the work as a reflective tool, articulating questions that remain unresolved in visual form.