josé leguey
Pintura - Dibujos - Collage -
Serie "La belleza"
La casa de Hanna - 60x75x15cm. - técnica mixta, collage, poliéster, cartón, cera, cemento y madera
El jardín - 55x45x9cm. - acrílico, calcita, óleo, cera y cartón
Obra - 2026
La casa de Hanna - 70x30x20cm. - técnica mixta, cartón, collage y cera
Lugares - 60x43x15cm. - técnica mixta, estampa, cartón y loneta
La escena insiste en desaparecer, como si su sola presencia fuera un error que hay que corregir. Se la cubre, se la desplaza, se la empuja hacia abajo, pero no cede del todo: permanece ahí, filtrándose por los bordes, recordando que ocurrió.
La grieta no acepta el disimulo. Todo intento de sellarla la vuelve más visible, más incómoda. No hay reparación, solo capas que se superponen sin llegar a cerrar nada, como una negación repetida.
Y la estructura… intenta recomponerse, sí, pero ya no responde. Sus líneas no organizan, se cruzan sin acuerdo, como si hubieran olvidado para qué estaban ahí. No sostienen, apenas resisten.
Nada se resuelve.
Todo sigue ocurriendo a la vez: ocultar, tapar, recomponer… fracasar.
Y en ese fracaso es donde realmente se fija el lugar.
The scene insists on disappearing, as if its very presence were an error that must be corrected. It is covered, displaced, pushed downward, yet it does not fully yield: it remains there, seeping through the edges, reminding us that it happened.
The crack does not accept concealment. Every attempt to seal it only makes it more visible, more unsettling. There is no repair, only layers that overlap without ever closing anything, like a repeated denial.
And the structure… it tries to recompose itself, yes, but it no longer responds. Its lines do not organize; they intersect without agreement, as if they had forgotten what they were there for. They do not support—at best, they barely resist.
Nothing is resolved.
Everything keeps happening at once: to hide, to cover, to recompose… to fail.
And it is in that failure where the place truly takes shape.
La puerta única
En La puerta única hablo desde mi propia desconfianza. Desde esa sensación persistente de que la realidad sociopolítica en la que vivimos avanza sin rumbo claro, sostenida por un relato que se presenta como inevitable. La puerta no está construida: está nombrada. Y ese gesto me inquieta. Cuando sólo se nos ofrece una entrada posible, empiezo a sospechar que no se trata de acceso, sino de dirección impuesta.
El bote volcado, con la materia blanca detenida antes de caer, soy yo frente a esa deriva. Algo debería fluir —la palabra, el pensamiento crítico, la capacidad de disentir— pero queda congelado en un instante previo. No es un estallido, es una suspensión. Y esa suspensión habla de agotamiento, de una energía que se inmoviliza antes de transformarse.
Las imágenes del plano inferior, intervenidas y casi borradas, representan mi dificultad para leer el presente. La historia aparece fragmentada, cubierta por capas de ruido y gestos que la distorsionan. No intento ilustrar un hecho concreto; intento mostrar mi incomodidad ante la construcción de una realidad que se inclina lentamente sin que parezca derrumbarse.
Esta obra nace de una necesidad: cuestionar lo que se da por cerrado. Desconfiar de toda estructura que se proclame única. Para mí, trabajar con materiales precarios, con cartón, restos y adhesivos visibles, es una forma de recordar que toda arquitectura ideológica también es frágil. Que incluso la puerta que se presenta como definitiva puede estar sostenida apenas por capas superpuestas de ficción.
In The Only Door, I speak from a place of distrust. From the persistent sense that the sociopolitical reality we inhabit is moving forward without a clear direction, sustained by a narrative that presents itself as inevitable. The door is not physically constructed; it is simply named. That gesture troubles me. When only one possible entrance is offered, I begin to suspect that it is not access at all, but a form of imposed direction.
The overturned container, with the white matter held just before it falls, becomes a reflection of my own position within that drift. Something ought to be flowing — language, critical thought, the capacity to dissent — and yet it remains suspended in a moment before release. It is not an eruption, but a state of arrest. That suspension speaks of exhaustion, of an energy immobilised before it can become action or transformation.
The images on the lower plane, altered and nearly erased, reflect my difficulty in reading the present. History appears fragmented, obscured by layers of noise and intervention that distort its legibility. I am not trying to illustrate a specific event, but rather to convey my unease before a reality that seems to tilt gradually, without ever fully collapsing.
This work emerges from a need to question what is presented as fixed or unquestionable. To distrust any structure that declares itself singular or final. For me, working with precarious materials — cardboard, fragments, and visible adhesive — is a way of insisting that every ideological architecture is also fragile. Even the door that presents itself as definitive may be sustained only by overlapping layers of fiction.
Sin título - 22x26x9cm. - collage, madera y clavos
The piece is articulated as a device of tension between the sacred and the violent, between the idealized image and the rawness of the narrative.
The black frame functions as a structure of containment: it delimits, frames, imposes order. Inside, the figure of the angel —a black-and-white photographic cutout of classical appearance— evokes an iconography of purity, protection, or transcendence. However, its position is not ascending but supported on an unstable, almost precarious fragment. There is no flight; there is suspension.
Behind and beneath it, the wood pierced by rusted nails introduces a dimension of aggression and pain. The nails hang, threaten, weigh down. They are not fastening; they are dangling, as if the structure itself were about to give way. The oxidation speaks of time, of deterioration, of accumulated memory.
The embedded text —with an explicit description of violence— erupts as a raw narrative within an apparently devotional scene. That sentence acts as a semantic trigger: it dismantles any romantic reading of the angel. The celestial is no longer refuge but a brutal contrast to earthly brutality.
Formally, the work is constructed through opposition:
Black / white
Protection / wound
Elevation / fall
Narrative / image
Conceptually, it seems to pose a question:
What place does the symbolic occupy when violence is structural?
Can religious or moral imagery sustain itself upon a reality pierced by nails?
The piece does not seek reconciliation. Rather, it points to the fracture between discourse and experience, between the promise of salvation and the materiality of harm.
Nuevos trabajos
Pensé en volver - 42x32x5cm. - técnica mixta, collage, cartón, clavos y madera
The work is situated in a territory of loss—not of a place, but of an experience: the disappearance of those sensations that once functioned as an awakening of eroticism. The closed windows do not refer to intimacy, but to the impossibility of access; to a desire that no longer finds a means of projection and remains charged with unknowns.

















































