Justine Franco Butez (Palma de Mallorca, 1996) is a Spanish visual artist based in A Coruña. She began her artistic training at the Escuela de Arte Pancho Lasso in Lanzarote, where she developed a deep interest in material processes and visual composition. Later, she moved to Madrid to pursue studies in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Universidad Complutense, an experience that would inform her sensitivity toward texture, surface, and the passage of time within her pictorial language.
 

Her practice unfolds at the intersection of memory, identity, and collective imagery, translating lived experience into a visual language that oscillates between the personal and the archetypal. Through her paintings, Justine constructs intricate compositions where fragments of cultural memory, fashion, and ornament become vessels for emotional and symbolic resonance. Her figures are not portraits but presences—evocations that emerge from an intuitive process of layering, erasure, and reconstruction.
 

Rooted in Spanish heritage yet open to global visual currents, her work reclaims the ornamental as a site of meaning. By combining textiles, accessories, and chromatic density, she challenges the contemporary tendency toward visual minimalism, asserting color, rhythm, and excess as forms of identity and resistance.