Pomet grew up between the city of Grenada, where he was born in 1971, and a small town, Cordoba - his father’s hometown. As Pomet himself explains, his paintings hold a distinctively Iberian sensibility. The cynicism in his work exposes a historical residue of a totalitarian Franco regime that meant fatalism was “an ingredient almost omnipresent in our culture.” In post-Franco Spain, Pomet’s traditional art education at the University of Granada focused on landscapes, portraits and still life. While he found this approach limiting, it edified his need to resist through artistic expression. As a result, he developed the unique juxtapositions of his work: hyperreal monochrome figures and landscapes punctuated by piercing colour, cartoons, lightsabers, elongated limbs, and foreboding masses of pink bubblegum. Taking inspiration from vintage photographs, along with his own popular culture references, Pomet’s paintings both honour and ridicule the absurd world around him.