Nicasio Torres (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1975) is a visual artist based in Barcelona whose practice unfolds through drawing and painting. His work revolves around the human figure, exploring a territory where innocence and strangeness coexist within a single aesthetic universe.

The human figure is the starting point of his work. Faces and bodies appear again and again, rendered with a sensitivity that is at once gentle and unsettling. It is in this balance, between the familiar and the strange, that his visual language finds its own voice.

In his works in Indian ink, faces and figures of delicate, at times almost naive appearance take on an ambiguous, ghostly presence. Through ink washes, forms dissolve and acquire a shifting quality, oscillating between the recognisable and the indeterminate. The image is never fully fixed; it seems to appear and fade at the same time.

His characters seem to inhabit a place between the real and the imagined. There is something in their gaze that feels familiar and, at the same time, strange, as if they were reminding us of something we cannot quite recognise.

Torres’s work invites the viewer to remain in that uncertain space, where recognition is never complete. Rather than offering a closed story, each piece leaves room for the viewer’s own reading, allowing innocence and strangeness to coexist in quiet tension.

Captured by Carlos Pareja