ELTIGREMEPERSIGUE
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Dates2023 - Ongoing
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Author
- Location Bolivia, Bolivia
ELTIGREMEPERSIGUE is an intimate photographic odyssey exploring self-discovery through Duelo. It depicts both the struggle against an adversary and the psychological aftermath of loss. This series features nude portraits of our 'tigers' in domestic spaces
His gaze against the sweeping of the bars
has grown so weary, it can hold no more.
To him, there seem to be a thousand bars
and back behind those thousand bars no world.
R.M. Rilke
ELTIGREMEPERSIGRE, is an intimate photographic odyssey that delves into the deep process of self-discovery through the lens of duelo. Defined both as a struggle against an adversary as the intricate psychological journey that follows loss, this series comprises a collective diary of nude portraits talking about our tigers in the everyday domestic space.
While I was reloading a 35mm film to continue filming my project 3x10 Bs, I confessed to my friend Arturo the sensation of a tiger chasing me incessantly, he looked me in the eyes and said: the tiger has given you, the same thing that gave Sombra character from the film Güeros, I was shocked and realized that I, like Sombra, was a poet haunted by panic attacks that manifests as a spectral tiger.
This revelation happened while I was dealing with personal tribulations, I had lost my bff, she passed away last year; I had lost my daisy-stealing criminal kitty, </3 and I had lost the relationship with my own body, re-recognizing myself as a non-binary person. A year full of anxiety and panic attacks led me to recognize my own tiger and take on the duelo, initiating a visual dialogue through an intimate collective self-portrait.
