BEING ARTIST AND BEING TWIN / SER ARTISTA Y SER GEMELA
My artistic career often runs parallel to that of Mercedes Peris, who is not only an artist but also my twin sister. We both agree with the same essential principles about art, but always maintaining our own entity as individual artists. We are not a group of artists, although we often work together, but never on the same art work, with some exceptions during our studies for the Fine Arts degree and later during the doctorate, time during which we created several animated short films directed in collaboration. That "working together" most of the time consists of setting common goals for the good of the artistic development of both, for example, we do activities together, such as practicing drawing from life and exhibiting together. Thus, we support and help each other, but the authorship of our works is never confused (as some pairs of artist twins do); I do not intervene in the realization of my sister's works nor does she intervene in mine, except in what refers exclusi
