The Cimiento series consists of sculptures carved from blocks of paper that, through meticulous manual work, take on the shape, texture, and color of tree trunks, thus evoking the raw material from which each sheet originates. Each block is composed of about 8,000 sheets of printed paper.
The prints reproduce great works of universal graphic art, images that have passed through centuries of history without losing their impact, despite their multiple reproductions. Lagos is interested in how techniques such as woodcut (engraving on a wood plate) have enabled the mass circulation of images that influence the collective imagination.
A key example in the series is the reference to the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer, the 16th-century master engraver, whose illustrations visually translate the biblical texts about the end of the world. In this way, paper becomes not only the medium for history but also a living body that preserves the graphic memory of human thought.
