I am my memory. Who am I when I forget?
I conceive of my work as a cabinet of curiosities, a compilation of audiovisual, plastic, and digital explorations, both interactive and contemplative, which act as witnesses to the ephemeral nature of our memory. It is a personal collection that invites a poetic reflection on the tensions between memory and forgetfulness, attachment and detachment, and on how these dualities shape our perception of reality and our existence.
In my artistic practice, I am interested in the challenges of capturing and sensibly representing an ephemeral, even imperceptible, universe that surrounds us: intangible memories, vanished moments, forgetfulness, uncertainty, and the immaterial. Through walking, I explore territories, observe objects, and decipher the traces left by recently vanished presences. Using various devices, I capture images and sounds that sometimes reveal mythical dimensions of our own reality. Through different materials, I intervene in these captures to evoke feelings, emotions, and states of mind, seeking to make the invisible visible. My work is thus a meticulous exercise in capture and representation, aimed at granting this hidden and fleeting universe a kind of eternity in time and space.
The questions raised in my work emerge from the contrast between humanity's desire to define its nature tangibly and the impossibility of doing so, due to its own sensory and cognitive limitations, or the indeterminacy of nature itself. It is within this impossibility of knowing everything that, in my view, lies the beauty of our existence. Everything emerges and disappears. Everything is both eternal and ephemeral. We are the sum of our memory and our forgetfulness.
In my works, I seek to evoke the beauty, pain, powerlessness, and strength that this impossibility generates in our minds. I also reflect on how this ephemeral and imperceptible reality allows us to create a conscious and unique sense of belonging to the world perceptible to our senses.