La noche en que morí was born from an intense altered state of consciousness in which I experienced what felt like my own physical death. I found myself crossing into a world inhabited by the dead, where fear gradually gave way to acceptance and compassion. The painting captures that threshold between death and return: the dissolution of the self, the encounter with darkness, and the possibility of being reborn after confronting it. Rather than representing death as an ending, the work explores it as a process of transformation — a symbolic death from which a different version of the self can emerge.

Provenance

Original work created by Melissa Antúnez in Barcelona, 2025. From the artist’s personal collection. Exhibited at OBSCURA Barcelona, Nau Bòstik, Barcelona, 2025.