Working primarily in pen and ink, sometimes augmented with pencil, Héctor Pineda constructs drawings consisting of dense, pulsating worlds, networks of interlaced lines and textures. The page becomes a living membrane through which forms erupt. Figures – frequently female, frequently hybridised – emerge from the cross-hatching and filament-like tendrils. A striking feature of these works is their sense of arrested movement; bodies are caught mid-mutation, with skeletal structures sprouting petals and organs morphing into cosmic architecture.

Eroticism is present but rarely isolated; it is embedded within the cycle of decay and regeneration. Vulvas open into star fields, ribcages transform into latticed cathedrals, and faces dissolve into biomorphic ornament. The grotesque and the delicate coexist.

The absence of preparatory sketches lends Pineda’s drawings an improvisational intensity. Forms flow directly from the artist’s hand, and this immediacy is heightened by the unforgiving nature of ink. There is little opportunity for revision, so each mark carries commitment, and the result is a body of work that feels both intimate and monumental. In black and white Pineda stages vast cosmologies, where the line becomes the agent of life and death.