“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” revolves around the observation and analysis of modern society. Something about laughter fascinates me, its significance and how we use it. This work looks at the boundaries where the grotesque and the disturbing emerge. Continuously used as a protective mask in public, the obligation of laughter becomes in my work a distortive experience of disintegration. Tightly related to the work of Goya it relates to the Spanish tradition of Pain, guilt, the, grotesque, the obscene and the sublime. My portraits are taken in what appears to be a moment in time, however the theatrical parody makes a comment on amore interesting level. The act of manipulation has resonances in grotesque propaganda and highlights the more sinister hysteria associated with laughter as a last resort. My characters appear affected by it, alienated, scared, hysterical, but impotent. At the same time they appear sanctified by a sacred halo and turned into heroes of our days". (Aingeru Zorita)