08/07/2026
“REPARATIONS” at Dm for address
From 28/05 - 27/06
This body of work belongs to an ongoing research called “Conversaciones con Rafael sobre Esther e Ybrain”.
Time has passed and with the passing of those who watched us grow it is impossible not to ask myself how my life has changed, knowing that I can no longer communicate physically with my father’s side of the family, but spiritually. In that process, memories are open up and are reconstructed, and with them new questions emerge about a past that remains present, accompanying us into the future.
What I see most clearly is what is no longer here, yet once sustained our entire existence and our capacity to keep living. Within this, many images appear: restaurants, Santo Domingo, la Virgen del rosario, Zaña, Tauca, and what it felt like to live in a house that was gradually overtaken by greed.
I think that our connection to the lands that saw us born and raised, that nourished us, and from which we learned to breathe, is mediated by faith in something greater—a giver of life. To break this connection, to cease honoring the divine in both life and death, is to fall under a curse that alienates us, born from the trauma produced by the ideas of Progress, Development, and Humanity as they are inscribed upon the body.
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1. Conversaciones con rafael. Acrylic on canvas.
2. Virgen del Rosario guia mi camino. Acrylic on canvas.
3. Divina Muerte. Ceramic and natural flowers.
4. Recibida por la Virgen del rosario. Wax crayons on paper.
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Thank u sooo much to Dm for address team for all the love and the beautiful collective exhibition.