Statement

By revisiting historical archives, I try to reflect collective issues in envisioning the future, using images and objects as mnemonic devices that would trigger a debate on cultural, political and social issues.       

 

Far from any historicist pretention, my work is focused not so much in the archival order, but in the aspirational dimension in the use of the archives, giving way to secondary narratives in which deconstructive thought prevails.

 

By appropriating historical archives and reanimating them through newer technologies, I intend to demonstrate the principle of authority, transgressing it´s character of law by reordering, accumulating and modifying them.  Likewise, by exposing these documents to a strange audience, an aggressive act per se, I pretend to create a critical sense in the audience regarding the exteriorization of a document, that is to say, it´s public character.

 

These “flashes” that cause discontinuities in the historical narrative, are undoubtably a way of preserving an ideal past, as well as an opportunity to release psychic charges -a bit tinged with melancholy- against a structure that is personally determinant, and at the same time they´re displaced to the broader social environment, echoing the frustration for being a no-place.