Back on the Shelf
Back on the Shelf
Exhibition photos
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Exhibition photos 〰️
Je reviendrai, avec des membres de fer, la peau sombre, l'oeil furieux : sur mon masque, on me jugera d'une race forte.
Arthur Rimbaud
Serendipity is an ongoing series that began when a fortuitous encounter with a poet set in motion a journey in search of repressed memories. I met the writer Horacio Cavallo by chance in a bookshop. We discovered that we had grown up in the same old neighborhood of Montevideo in the late seventies when the country was under the darkest dictatorship. Coincident and divergent recollections came to light as our conversation progressed. We were then those secondary characters in the life of adults dealing with big problems. We want now to validate our "unimportant" childhood stories that were born and thrived under the tyranny. Sometimes resonances of that terror made their appearance in our memories and surreptitiously intruded on our child's play.
We decided to continue this dialogue into a joint project: I create an image, he responds with a haiku, then I respond to his poem with a new photograph, and so on.
Each image is not an actual reenactment of a childhood memory but rather a poetic reconstruction of the lasting feeling. This visit to the past is at times vindication, at times denial and always questioning.
Mock-up book (work in progress)
