Layering Emotions: Pepo Moreno «I borrow the brazenness of the fashion's world, of glossy paper, to create superimpositions in which to project my emotionality»

With accrossages of naïf, somewhat bedroom drawings, annotations and memos, Pepo Moreno builds mood boards of possible worlds, assembling memory and ideal. After a successful past in the fashion industry, the Catalan artist reclaims his need for creative expression, exacerbated by the stagnation of the covid emergency, experienced in the captivity of a Parisian apartment, which has become for him an atelier and shelter. «During the pandemic I was bored to death, I started painting nonstop. The practice became, day after day, an integral part of my routine». From an imposed domesticity Moreno re-emerged in a random motion of improvisation, making hundreds of compositions, where emoticons and melting figures become true witnesses of those frailties, which undoubtedly unite each of us. He confesses to me: «At one point I realized that I had wallpapered my room with paintings...I had no more space! Art helped me openly express my anxieties in a moment of stalemate». In 2021, the painter repurposed the intimacy of his bedroom in the spaces of Galerie Charraudeau, transposing his so-personal story-telling into a public space, a laboratory of introspection and catharsis. Pepo Moreno tried to filter those difficult moments through the lens of humor, making something meaningful for himself, in front of which he could stand and reflect.

«It fascinates me how fashion always manages to be a sincere dimension through which to express oneself... I borrow the brazenness of that world, of glossy paper, to create superimpositions in which to project my emotionality». Three years after his radical change of perspective, Pepo Moreno's works allow us to understand that very often abandoning certainties can open up wide new horizons, and if everything seems to be falling apart. «Do not worry! Everything's gonna be alright, darling!»