TE PROHIBO QUE ME OLVIDES. I FORBID YOU TO FORGET ME.
I Forbid You to Forget Me is an ongoing series born from the death of my mother in 2019. While sifting through her belongings, I found a photograph of her that I had never seen before. Beneath her portrait, she had written, “Te prohibo que me olvides,” which translates to “I forbid you to forget me.”
The series investigates two contradictory urges: the archival urge to reflect upon the past and the conceptualist urge to bend the process of reflection toward the practice of contemplating.
Through collage, I create image-objects that mirror the feeling of grief. Almost all materials are sourced from my family's archive and transformed through various processes: embroidering my mother’s words onto photographs, pairing her portraits with objects she left behind, transferring images onto fabric, and freezing photographs in ice.
The series investigates two contradictory urges: the archival urge to reflect upon the past and the conceptualist urge to bend the process of reflection toward the practice of contemplating.
Through collage, I create image-objects that mirror the feeling of grief. Almost all materials are sourced from my family's archive and transformed through various processes: embroidering my mother’s words onto photographs, pairing her portraits with objects she left behind, transferring images onto fabric, and freezing photographs in ice.
