Julio Alba is a visual artist whose work explores the tension between the body, gesture, and emotional memory. His practice combines contemporary painting with experimental processes, building surfaces where layers of color, transparencies, and gestural traces function as imprints of movement. He works with oils, acrylics, and handcrafted blends he develops in his studio, seeking for the material to breathe and reveal overlapping moments in time. His recurring interest is the connection between the intimate and the urban: bodies that expand, fold, or fragment in response to everyday pressures. His creative motivation stems from observing human behavior, physical vulnerability, and the poetics of imbalance, transforming them into images that oscillate between restraint and explosion.