CUARENTONA EN CUARENTENA

Pandemia 2020
Acostumbrada a un ejercicio fotográfico en las calles, esta serie surgió como una suerte de paracaídas emocional y creativo ante el encierro en solitario. La serie se desarrolló de la mano de las notas de mi diario y evolucionó con los meses. Cada una de las imágenes son testimonios de cómo he atravesado la pandemia y también de cómo la pandemia me ha atravesado a mí.
Durante esta evolución me di cuenta de que si gracias a la fotografía callejera podía ser capaz de traspasar las capas de una ciudad para llegar a puntos medulares, a través del autorretrato podía horadar las capas propias en un proceso revelador y también, hay que decirlo, abrumador.
Decidí llamar esta serie Cuarentona en cuarentena.
Mención de honor – International Photography Awards 2020
Pandemic 2020
Accustomed to a photographic exercise in the streets, this series has emerged as a kind of emotional and creative parachute to a solitary confinement. The series has been developed hand in hand with the notes in my diary and evolved over the months. Each one of the images are testimonies of how I have gone through the pandemic and also how the pandemic has gone through me.
During this evolution I realized that if thanks to street photography I could be able to penetrate the layers of a city to reach core points, through the self-portrait I could pierce the layers of my own in a revealing and also overwhelming process.
Cuarentona= women in her forties; Cuarentena = quarantine.
Honorable mention – International Photography Awards 2020
Pandemie 2020
Habituée à un exercice photographique dans les rues, cette série est apparue comme une sorte de parachute émotionnel et créatif face à l’enfermement en solitaire. La série s’est développée à partir des notes de mon journal. Chacune de ces images témoigne de la façon dont j’ai traversé la pandémie et de la façon dont la pandémie m’a traversé.
Au cours de cette évolution, j’ai réalisé que si grâce à la photographie de rue j’étais capable de traverser les couches d’une ville pour atteindre des points cruciaux, à travers l’autoportrait je pouvais percer les couches propres dans un processus révélateur et aussi accablant.
Cuarentona= femme entre 40 et 50 ans; Cuarentena= quarantaine
Mention honorable – International Photography Awards 2020
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- 05-05-2021 Queretaro, Mexico From series «Cuarentona en Cuarentena» (taken during the pandemic lockdown) Last night the knot in my chest that disappeared a few weeks ago came back. This morning, with the first rays of the sun, I asked for enlightenment to keep myself calm and wise. Then I opened my book and came across these lines: «Do one thing after another, as thoroughly as possible: smell the bread, smell the gin, fold the paper… that is salvation.» (The Weight of the World, Peter Handke)
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- 04-22-2021 Queretaro, Mexico From series «Cuarentona en Cuarentena» (taken during the pandemic lockdown) I saw my mother through the window when I went to her house to leave the supermarket. I miss having breakfast with her and chatting over coffee. I miss her hugs, too. I would like to have her wisdom, her tenderness and her big heart. For me she is the most beautiful person in the world.