A Tale About Destiny

2021

Black and white photographic paper and painted wooden frame

47.5 x 50 in.

In 2021 I had an exhibition at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City. For one of the pieces in the show, we darkened the biggest room and pinned up an unexposed, black and white photographic paper. I manage to re-direct a sunbeam with a very simple mirror system to make it travel every day on the surface of that paper from 1:00 to 1:20 pm. Day after day, the Sun left a gray mark behind as it was passing by. Every week we took down the paper and pinned up a new one. These papers are the pieces I’m showing here. The pink color comes from the fixing bath the papers went through to make the image permanent. There’s memory on these papers but there’s also oblivion. There’s an accumulation of time of unrecognizable landscapes. They are a logbook and they are abstractions. These are marks on a different type of skin.

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