IDENTITY. PHOTOGRAPHY

The curiosity aroused by one’s own origins there is an exercise of performative expression materializing shared transcendental concerns. Through mimesis, in ‘Identity’ an ancestral cosmology is represented that reminds us that we are those who were others. The lenticular photography makes the gaze get lost in the duality of these subjects, to become one. Different genders and ages are transited to carry out a performative transmutation. And in this return, we find that the experiences of the former relatives appear to be fully traversed by the social and political circumstances of an era. In this way, not only an individualized past is shown, but also capsules of history silenced in each face are spoken of. The past takes on importance to the extent that it still remains inscribed in the memory of our body. A whole and a nothing, a we defined by the eyes of others that are no longer external but our own. Identity is a path of return looking for answers that have their own name. Those people deserve to be mentioned since they define us, determine us, shape us.

CREDITS

Installation comprising a horn, five pipes, a Polaroid EE44 camera, a 120 x 150 cm lenticular print, texts by Yapci Ramos and by Cayaya Ramos, a mural photograph, two window frames taken from Pensión Ramos.

Year: 2015-2018

Location: Tenerife (Spain)

PRESENTED AT

Show Me, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 2018

Know Us, CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno. 2019

Art Brussels, 2020

Family History. Delaware Contemporary, Delaware, 2021

'Leer la Colección', CAAM, Centro Atlántico do Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, November, 2020

En diálogo con José  Martín, CAAM, Centro Atlántico do Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2021

Aura Kunstraum, Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media, 2024

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