RETRACE
Video
9'54"
2020
These blueprints are reveries, a combination of the memory, the image and the emotional charges or dreams that these spaces have. The image is the stroke of the charcoal on paper, the image of these spaces that only exist as such in memory. The stroke is guided by the memory, which in turn is mediated by the hand, and the memory is tinged with associated emotions, emotional charges, like water colored with watercolor. The memory is transformed into spoken word and transmitted as a story. The planes that I draw are houses told from another's and mother's memory that becomes one's own. Each one holds key words that are associated with these memories, they are specific images and objects in an ambiguous space. In the story of the memory, as in the reverie, temporalities merge, blurring their limits. “Your room is” and “your room was” enter into the same explanation of the past. In the story, the maternal voice is absent. It is a void between words that gives a space to the sound of matter, charcoal on paper. The stroke is, then, a narrator of memory as well.
