DELIRIO EXÓTICO /EXOTIC DELIRIUM
The place where I live, the things that surround me, and the environment I breathe, slowly become a part of me, something that occasionally defines me. I could probably say that they travel with me wherever I go, even if the existence of this psychological space only manifests itself when I’m elsewhere from home.
The mountains of Huila in Colombia have always been a recurring place since my childhood, my past and present are filled with references to its tropical landscape as well as the exuberance and color of its plants and birds. So it seems that I have a tropical corner in my being. During an extended stay in Madrid, I constantly looked for those elements that lingered in my memory but that were completely vanished from this new outside world, of those familiar places had always offered me a security blanket. Whereas, I was fascinated with the architecture, neoclassical structures, caryatids and columns that talked to me of a distant past, sceneries of static nature, frozen in time but of majestic grandeur. There was something in these shapes and spaces that were somehow close to me, a hidden familiarity, a certainty only similar to that provided by déjà vú.
Exotic Delirium is a revelation through photography and collage of a mental game where these two places —Madrid and the Colombian Tropics — coexist, side by side. In this series I attempt to capture my experience of being in these two places simultaneously, one determined by my location and the other one by my nostalgia and memories. Only through my self-fiction I’m able to bring this two distant worlds together, in space as well as in time. I find very appealing the idea of moving and juxtaposing these two realities that contrast so much, I have kept on exploring almost obsessively with the possibilities and combinations that arise from the fusion of experience and memory, something that only a delirium has allowed me to do so.
Exhibited at / Expuesto en:
LIA Faro, Bogota, Colombia.
