Carlos Romano

Carlos Romano develops a transdisciplinary practice across painting, sculpture, music, dance, poetry, philosophy, and writing. Through these different languages, he explores human emotions, the memory of the body, and the African heritages that shape his imagination.

In painting and sculpture, Romano unfolds a singular expressive figuration, where bodies seem to carry inner states rather than fixed identities. Presence, vulnerability, spirituality, and movement meet in a constant tension between strength and fragility.

Rhythm is central to his work. Nourished by African musicalities and folklore, from East Africa to Mali and Senegal, as well as by modern and urban languages, his practice creates a dialogue between image, sound, gesture, and thought.

Through his project Afrophilia, Romano questions African identity, love, existence, and the deeper structures of human experience. His work approaches intimacy as a universal language, where the body becomes a space of memory, transmission, and transformation.