After years given to fashion work for the most prestigious international houses, Arroyo presents a new chapter that places itself knowingly beyond the borders of that field. It is a break and at the same time a return to the beginning: a move back towards a pure practice, stripped of every artifice and superstructure.

His eye becomes more intimate and more rigorous, concentrating on the essence of the subjects and on the intrinsic force of the image; the pictures are marked by an essential, direct visual language, without frills, where objects and nudes emerge with force from the ground, isolated and laid bare in their formal and expressive singularity.