Opera al Nero
A Digital Exploration of Shadow and Femininity in Monterrey
In May 2025, I brought Opera al Nero to the streets of Monterrey, transforming large-scale billboards across the city into a poetic digital art experience. Through this project, I invite viewers to pause and find moments of quiet reflection amid the city’s daily rush.
Inspired by alchemical traditions, Opera al Nero—which means "Work in Black"—explores themes of transformation, darkness, and regeneration. The series features minimalist watercolor portraits combined with natural materials like leaves, petals, and seeds, revealing a delicate balance between concealment and revelation, memory and identity.
Originally created on paper and later digitally transformed, these portraits emphasize texture and tactility—the blot of watercolor like bruised skin, dried flora evoking faded rituals—bringing a sensory depth that is often lost in digital art.
With Opera al Nero, I wanted to explore the idea of bringing intimate paper paintings into a much larger scale by presenting them on digital billboards. This shift in scale and context invites a new way to experience the work—offering a meditation on transformation, presence, and the fragile beauty of becoming.