Remembered Figures
Remembered Figures explores the figure as a remembered presence rather than a fixed portrait. Instead of representing a specific identity, these paintings evoke bodies and faces that emerge through memory, gesture, and painterly matter.
Built through layers of colour, palette‑knife marks, glazes, and tensions between defined and fragmented areas, the image never fully settles into a fixed form. The figure remains recognisable yet continuously shifts, dissolves, and re‑forms within the pictorial space.
Lafuente’s work inhabits the threshold between presence and dissolution. Colour functions not as description, but as a structural force that shapes composition and transforms the perception of the body. Figure and ground interact and merge, creating images that feel unstable, alive, and in transition.
In Remembered Figures, painting becomes a space where memory, perception, and identity intersect. What emerges is not a closed portrait but a visual trace — a figure that persists without ever becoming fully fixed.
