los ojos que te Faltan { 20 images } Created 23 Nov 2023
'Los ojos que te faltan' ('the eyes that you don’t have') is a project about memory, identity, trauma and the visibility of victims, but above all it is a proposal on how to develop an architecture of memory that makes victims visible by giving them a new public identity. and collective that is effective to claim its space today.
The title ('The eyes that you don't have') comes from the poem of Antonio Machado 'The Crime was in Granada' dedicated to Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered in Granada by fascists in 1936.
It is a project that reflects on how we are capable of prosecuting those crimes that the dictatorship hid and that even today remain shrouded in silence and impunity. About how to confront the image of the victims and their presence without using identifying photographs that now tell us little or nothing about them and whose most effective context is surely the warm privacy of their own families. On the contrary, my proposal is based on the fact that at this historical moment what is important is not the specific visual identity of the protagonists, but rather exploring precisely the way in which their visibility constitutes collective actions.
To do this, I work with identity photographs of people murdered and exhumed from mass graves since 2000. I compile the available photographs of the people exhumed in each of the graves and group them in such a way that the features of their faces are superimposed. so that the visual identity of all of them is diluted, forming a single face in which individual features will be more difficult to differentiate the more people whose remains have been exhumed are shown. All the victims are truly present in each of the images, but forming a new collective and political identity with which to begin a reflection on their place in public memory.
The title ('The eyes that you don't have') comes from the poem of Antonio Machado 'The Crime was in Granada' dedicated to Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered in Granada by fascists in 1936.
It is a project that reflects on how we are capable of prosecuting those crimes that the dictatorship hid and that even today remain shrouded in silence and impunity. About how to confront the image of the victims and their presence without using identifying photographs that now tell us little or nothing about them and whose most effective context is surely the warm privacy of their own families. On the contrary, my proposal is based on the fact that at this historical moment what is important is not the specific visual identity of the protagonists, but rather exploring precisely the way in which their visibility constitutes collective actions.
To do this, I work with identity photographs of people murdered and exhumed from mass graves since 2000. I compile the available photographs of the people exhumed in each of the graves and group them in such a way that the features of their faces are superimposed. so that the visual identity of all of them is diluted, forming a single face in which individual features will be more difficult to differentiate the more people whose remains have been exhumed are shown. All the victims are truly present in each of the images, but forming a new collective and political identity with which to begin a reflection on their place in public memory.
