EMPTY STAGE

Empty photo album which contained photographs from moments between 1924 and 2021.

Documentation of a rock cut grave as Pla dels Albats necropolis in Olerdola, Catalunya (9th-12th c.)

Empty Stage is a series of works refer to the silence, void, and blankness of an album that has been years-long imprinted by the photos that it no longer holds. The incapability of remembering, because you were simply not present yet acknowledging its trace. Knowing that something did happen, did exist ~ the imagination and assumption of what it could’ve been. This conceptual research departs from one photo album that used to belong to my grandmother who passed away at the age of 96. All photos were taken out, but the imprint of them; of moments between 1924 and 2021, remain on every page.

This album is conceptually compared to an empty stage; a scenario awaiting to be activated, with lights and music palpitating to start, creating an expectation of something unknown about to begin. An empty stage is a representative of before and an imprinted photo album of after; the seek of the present within these hints and traces is part of the process. To think about past and future entails the theme of cycles, with deaths as portals to rebirth and regeneration.

*Material Identities*, 2022, empty photo album page, bone, ceramics

Simão Passed Away, 2022, wood, empty photo album pages, fiberglass, wax, coconut mesh, 15 x 25 x 4 cm

Framing the Unknown Past, 2022, empty photo album page, ceramics, 25 x 45 x 5 cm

Baby Shaman, 2022, ceramics, coconut mesh, acrylic sheet, 20 x 65 x 5 cm.

Baby-shaman’s grave I, 2022, Archival pigment print

Baby-shaman’s grave III, 2022, Archival pigment print

Baby-shaman’s grave II, 2022, Archival pigment print

Documentation of three babies’ graves in the Pla dels Albats necropolis in Olerdola monumental complex, Catalunya. (9th-12th c.).
Left grave is occupied by water, the center grave is a reproduction made on site for educational purposes, the right grave is occupied by pine foliage.