Oblivion is a self-portrait composed of a series of six photographs. A work done in that period, in which, I participated in the artistic residency 'Proyectos Clandestinos', in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a starting point: an immense desire to investigate the multiple relationships between visible and invisible affects, the intimacy of my body with plants, the solitude of a cold and impersonal apartment and memory. For three weeks, I portrayed the process of germinating black bean seeds inside a book, entitled 'Autobiografías de la Tierra', which I bought in a local tallow shop. A premeditated gesture by the decision to produce a sensitive and ephemeral object, destined to disappear. In these images, what remains are the fragments of an almost ethereal organic matter, which gradually seeps out of the contours, becoming completely diluted in what we conceive as the Whole. Or, transcending individual existence. 

 

* Creole seeds were generously donated by an activist organisation that for political reasons needs to remain anonymous.