La lámpara del cuerpo

In La lámpara del cuerpo (“The Lamp of the Body”), Diego Delas conjures an interior world shaped by ritual, memory, and domestic symbolism. The painting’s symmetrical structure evokes the visual logic of altarpieces, folk textiles, and architectural reliefs. Human-like figures, gestural marks, and symbolic motifs unfold across the surface like a coded anatomy—one that suggests protection, transformation, and the body as a vessel of meaning. The handcrafted frame, stained with black tea, wine, and linseed oil, reflects Delas’s commitment to material processes rooted in both craft and care. 

Drawing on his background in architecture and his reflections on rural life and pre-modern cosmologies, Delas invites us to consider a world where art objects carried spiritual charge—blurring the boundaries between the sacred and the everyday.