This work originates from the discovery of belongings from a family home emptied under a bridge in a peripheral neighborhood of Barcelona. There, I recovered hundreds of family photographs, eaten away by time, the sun, and humidity. Weeks later, in another peripheral neighborhood of the city, I found hundreds of family photographs in the tree pit of a street tree, this time shredded into fragments, as if someone had wanted to dispose of that memory. Alcorques explores the acceptance of the external gesture of throwing and breaking, intertwining it with my own gesture of finding, embracing, and resignifying. In this way, I place in dialogue the photograph turned into abstraction from the first family with the fragments from the second. Both coexist on a plexiglass support that allows the viewer to appreciate both the front and the back of the piece.
This work originates from the discovery of belongings from a family home emptied under a bridge in a peripheral neighborhood of Barcelona. There, I recovered hundreds of family photographs, eaten away by time, the sun, and humidity. Weeks later, in another peripheral neighborhood of the city, I found hundreds of family photographs in the tree pit of a street tree, this time shredded into fragments, as if someone had wanted to dispose of that memory. Alcorques explores the acceptance of the external gesture of throwing and breaking, intertwining it with my own gesture of finding, embracing, and resignifying. In this way, I place in dialogue the photograph turned into abstraction from the first family with the fragments from the second. Both coexist on a plexiglass support that allows the viewer to appreciate both the front and the back of the piece.