Sergi Ribot
Dreams Come True
There are people who leave a mark on you. But in the case of Sergi Ribot (Palma, 1993), it is his dreams that have made a mark on him. The ones he has had, and those still does have every night. Bright, dark, beautiful, distant, oneiric, surreal, real dreams. Ever since he was a child he knew he wanted to dedicate himself to art, although his family told him he wouldn’t be able to earn a living with it. Today, this lover of music, his other great passion, signs his illustrations as Space Rocket, hoping to give shape to the great dream of his life.
text Angie Ramón
illustration Sergi Ribot




Because Sergi still hasn’t illustrated that great dream, the most impressive of all those he has had, one that prominently features his grandmother. ‘When I was 10 years old, I had an out-of-body experience one night. My grandmother had recently passed away. I left my body and suddenly saw myself on the ceiling of my room. The door opened and some electric blue smoke appeared and moved towards me. Then a very real image of my grandmother took shape, and she came close and whispered in my ear: ‘We spirits are cold too’. After that, I returned to my body. When I woke up, the door to my room was open, even though I always leave it closed”’.
Sergi Ribot started building up his fantastic world of illustrations in 2016, and today he has more than a thousand of them. Children, childhood, flowers and the universe are frequent elements in his works. The composition of the images is shaped with vintage touches, the sea and space, as well as large doses of surrealism.
He had a happy childhood. However, when he announced his desire to devote himself to art to his family, a small schism formed between them. “Everyone in my family had studied science; they saw art as something that doesn’t bring in money to eat. [...]
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