Philippe Viejo describes himself as a traveling painter. Several Atlantic crossings by sailboat, a year-long family adventure from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska... The artist is drawn to the faces of the world and the richness of human encounters, which he transforms into striking portraits.

For over ten years, he has been developing a personal technique, working with resin like glass to obtain what he calls "his fragments of life." This unique approach allows him to reveal the human soul through each gaze: the material becomes emotion, color reveals feelings, transparency unveils the depth of beings, and light makes the authenticity of each subject resonate.

On permanent display in Mexico City after a year of artistic exploration in the heart of this megalopolis, the raw humanity of the "ciudad" now nourishes all his portraits, appearing as a subtle undercurrent. For Philippe Viejo, Frida Kahlo's city perfectly symbolizes the human diversity he seeks to capture: wondrous and sometimes disconcerting, always authentic.

Portraits of travel, journeys of portraiture, his canvases tell of both the external world and the inner universe of each individual. This particular sensitivity, nurtured by decades of encounters across cultures, allows him to grasp what makes each face unique. Each face he paints bears the traces of the horizons he has traversed.