Safont (Barcelona, 1995) is a visual artist whose practice brings together painting, documentary photography, and contemporary muralism. Over the past decade, he has developed public art projects across 19 countries, establishing an internationally recognised practice rooted in close engagement with place, communities, and lived experience. Throughout this journey, photography has remained a constant research tool and the foundation of his visual language.

 

In recent years, the studio has become the primary space through which he has deepened this investigation. Without departing from the methodology that has defined his practice, Safont gradually shifts his focus from the public realm towards a more intimate territory, where personal experience becomes a new field of inquiry. Within this new body of work, the relationship between photography and painting moves beyond a documentary logic to become a space of intervention.

 

Photography no longer functions solely as a document of representation but is approached as a plastic object whose materiality can be altered, activated, and reconfigured. The images are cut, transferred, reassembled, exposed to environmental processes and brought into direct contact with the landscape while entering the pictorial process. Painting becomes one operation within a broader sequence of material interventions that continually renegotiate the image and its status as representation.