Room Eater

A Room Eater is a passive predator. A quiet presence that feeds little by little on everything around it, even the emptiness itself. When a Room Eater is big enough it can’t be destroyed, is eternal. The only way to deal with a huge Room Eater is living inside it as a parasite outside the time and matter. This is the main concept of vacuum cannibalism.

I was born in 1983 in Madrid, Spain, but I grew up in the country, surrounded by mountains, plants and animals. Since I was a child it was difficult for me to understand some simple concepts such as time, death or language. It was a tough task for me to relate with people and to connect words with their respective objects. So I usually got lost in fantastic worlds full of creatures and monsters that I mentally built to escape from reality. I was both fascinated and terrified by the darkness, maybe not by the darkness itself but by all the mysteries hidden within. Somehow there was something so peaceful in those desolated worlds that I almost obsessively couldn’t stop capture it in drawings and small sculptures, but also something scary, pure and real, although I wasn´t able to explain it.