Armar esqueleto, 2025
Armar esqueleto (Building a skeleton) was born after my father’s death. Over the course of that year, I photographed and collected images from various sources. Some were extracted from books that made up my father’s library, others came from family albums.
These visuals are then processed using a technique called polaroid lift, which involves separating the layers that make up a Polaroid in order to extract the photosensitive emulsion. It is then scanned floating in water before being printed onto plexi. This technique creates a distortion that gives the image a different materiality, resonating with the action of time on memory and its metamorphosis.
This approach also requires returning to the visuals repeatedly. These back-and-forths feed the mourning phase with images from the past in an attempt to digest the present. It’s a way of taking control over a legacy and making it one’s own.
This work questions our relationship to the past and the way family mythology is built. Death opens the space for a new phantasmagoria—one shaped by the living.