For Abady, the visual present is emotionally and conceptually flooded by the past. Abady does not adhere to the conventional genres of still-life and landscape, nor does he conceive the body and portraiture as themes in themselves. They are the launching point for a journey into people's private past – an attempt to understand the meaning of their personal stories in relation to the collective narrative. The figure is at the centre of the artistic investigation, whose journey spreads out in a sequence of visual images, mainly portraits and other motifs...