Acorazada
Photo collages.
Hand cut collages with inkjet pigment ink photos on cotton paper print, A2 size.
Acorazadas means Armoured with the female suffix (in Spanish). It refers to an ongoing investigation on a second skin or layer to protect ourselves from the exterior world, present in all my latests projects.
Currently the exterior threat is more palpable than ever as it’s coming in the form of a virus that goes inside by body contact or through our breathing.
By using extracts of photographs from old magazines and publications I focus in Nature as a refuge as opposed to the origin of the disease. As the Pangolin is believed to be a carrier species, I look at his own armour and think of these ideas of biodiversity being our shelter. Zoonoses is cause by trafficking, consuming and destroying the habitat of those animals … The forest we take down is the barrier that protect us, its diversity absorbs these viruses…
I place myself in the image, using self-portraits to become part of these organism thinking of a time in the past or on a possible future where we were one with our surrounding, all life, without an environment and a human outside of it.
