Thix

Trained in the techniques of classical realism during their formative years, Thix has since explored how figuration extends beyond the visual field into the symbolic realm. This is based on the idea that archives occupy a central place in the political imaginary of queer and trans communities as repositories of collective memory, resistance, and counterpower, as well as sources of inspiration pointing to the future. 

They studied drawing and painting at The Florence Academy of Art (Italy) and The Barcelona Academy of Art (Spain), with a stint at Grand Central Atelier in New York. 

Thix's work draws from the legacy of Western figurative painting, mirroring elements of its own history — a strong sense of light and shadow unfolding into color, form, and materiality — while approaching intimacy through a queer lens.

Working with conceptual and documentary approaches to image-making, Thix examines gender and genre through portraiture and identity in a disobedient appropriation of the canon — fracturing classical pathways of representation, disorienting centers and borders, and blurring the personal and political, the ethereal and corporeal.

The temporal displacement in their still-life motifs reclaims and subverts the genre, transcending the limits of pictorial framing. Taking queer theory and phenomenology as a premise, their work examines aesthetic possibilities for thinking about the existence, contingency and orientation of bodies and objects that escape normativity.

By applying the visual vocabulary and academic conventions of painting to political themes drawn from the social fabric, Thix transforms their subjects and historical references into layered inversions, reinforcing the ambiguity and provocative complexity that permeate their images.