I grew up with the idea that ordinary dreams are impossible to reach. My mother married at sixteen. As a result, she missed experiencing her teenage years by taking on the role of a housewife while still so young herself. Her frustration translated to me into a word/feeling: “impossible.” Now, I stage my photographs, creating surreal scenes where I have control over everything, and everything is possible.
“No todo en la vida es color de rosa” is the Spanish saying that translated literally into the English language means “not everything in life is rosy. Hence, all in life is truly not perfect.
Deconstruction is a series of indirect self-portraits that explores the relationship between perfection and failure, identity, isolation and ambiguity through finely constructed surreal imagery.
Using models and objects, such as hair, plates, lamps, and eggs, I meticulously arrange the elements to present uncertainty through unexpected elements. These elements generate an intersection between possibility and impossibility.
I am interested in creating a dialogue between the photographs and the viewer where the answers are not absolute truths. The name Deconstruction, borrowed from the philosopher Jacques Derrida and reinterpreted here, shows how we rebuild ourselves based on what we have learned and what has been imposed upon us.