Borrowed Grandparents

Self-portrait photography project where I recreate with 9 actors and in their own homes a memory that does not exist for me: The relationship with my grandparents.

Starting from the fact that memory is not reality, but only the memories that we believe we have lived, this self-portrait photographic project aims to create a memory of what I did not live, to fabricate, through the will and the resources of representation, memories of a relationship with my grandmothers and grandfathers.

I asked several friends about the most important memories with their grandmothers and grandfathers, these writings full of emotion, longing and inevitably, sadness, marked the way.

If living is the first requirement to generate memory, can this in its fragility be manufactured? Created without denoting the seams of its manufacture? In this project I investigate the answer to these questions. Nine actors accompany this search, contributing their experiences, sensitivity, talent and even their own homes.

The project is articulated from the Brechtine technique of distancing that seeks to confront the spectator with the truth, taking him out of an illusory world.

This project does not intend to deceive the spectator, it is not documentary photography, it does not seek the truth. Rather, they are performative gestures, acts of intervention where what matters is not fidelity to the memory, but the possibility of it existing.

I am interested in taking a concept to its ultimate consequences, this work is made with this premise, the emotions created in its realization remain in me and in the rest of the team.