Visual arts
“The relationship between what we see and what we know is never clear. Every evening we see the sun setting. We know that the Earth is moving away from it. However, knowledge, explanation, never quite fit with vision.”
-John Berger
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Rewriting myself
Over the past year, I’ve felt my creative side in survival mode. I spend my time trying to keep feeling like an “artist” or looking for inspiration in my surroundings, struggling to maintain the essence of what my eyes capture.
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Operation scorpion
I invented a process to create “texture” in the images, to reveal a sort of “weaving” in my photographs, making them appear as if they come from surveillance cameras. I realized that the watchful eye is more alive than ever.
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Anonymous
The value of patience and the ritual of returning: going back to the same streets until I find the exact light and shadows I seek. Sometimes it's hard to believe that there is beauty in the everyday and to get others to appreciate it too.
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Soul in remuneration
Every activity is better if you enjoy yourself while doing it. You can build sets with lights, cameras, and wardrobe, but if you don’t approach it with the necessary lightness, sometimes it simply won’t work. I’ve learned that I shouldn’t do things expecting a result if I don’t allow myself to enjoy the process.
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Erotic capital
I have unlearned the need for conceptual or analytical justification and have instead begun working from sensitivity and intuition, searching for “the erotics of art, not its hermeneutics.” This shift has been partly unsettling, as letting go of rationalization also means allowing space for vulnerability, yet it has been deeply fulfilling.
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Solo nado si es contigo
I learned that our wrinkles tell stories. That our scars show we have survived. That our stretch marks reveal how constantly we change and adapt. That we spend too much time fearing the ending, when we should be proud of how alive we are.
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Chains that liberate
That voice that insists nothing I do has value, that everything has already been done, that someone else could do it better. Learning to coexist with her —and not let her take control— has been one of my greatest challenges.
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Today I’m awake
I realized that the creative process isn’t measured by perfection, but by what it leaves within you. I was hard on myself, blind to what was actually working, until I learned to see beauty in imperfection.
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1 8 0
Having plenty of time to think, watch films, and review the projects other classmates had shot helped me a lot. This allowed me to understand how I could tell a story with the limited resources I had at the time.
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Dwelling
I’ve been working on a series about dwelling, made up of fragments of homes that could belong to anyone, inviting the viewer to connect with their own sense of space. Between discipline and rest, I enjoy the creative process, and inspiration emerges from everyday life and from conversations with other artists.
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Path of the phoenix
Through these projects, I’d say I learned to observe again with calm, through curiosity, contemplation, play, and a dialogue with my immediate surroundings.I still feel that same excitement when I pick up the camera and head out into the street without knowing what I’ll find.
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Beneath the eye
Spending long hours working and experimenting in the darkroom, something I hadn’t done in years. I fell in love again with mistakes, the unexpected, the unrepeatable. I reconnected with the memory of the body and movement in the dark, as well as with the loss of the sense of time.
