I like to go and see my works, but it depends on how I’m feeling that day. I like to monitor how they’re doing. Sometimes I say to myself: “no, I’m not going in”; and then I say: “yes, I have to go in because I want to see how they’re doing”. With some, so far so good, and I’ve been very pleased. But with others not so much, and I say to myself: “here you probably could’ve cleaned a little bit”. Because there are works that were restored 30 years ago.
She works as a restorer at the Museo del Prado, participating in major projects such as the restoration of Las Meninas in 1984, directed by John Brealey (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and the restoration of the Adam and Eve panels by Dürer.
Interview recorded on November 29, 2017