EX VOTO

My work explores fragmented bodies in the Canary Islands, where wrestling and carnival reveal layered histories. Through close-ups and ceramic ex-votos, I create an archipelagic system where memory, ritual, and time coexist.

My work explores spaces where reality unfolds through fragmentation, where gestures, bodies, and histories coexist without merging into a single narrative. In the Canary Islands—an archipelago shaped by layered and discontinuous histories—I encountered two communities whose practices form distinct yet interconnected worlds: the lucha canaria wrestlers, heirs to the vanished Guanche people, and the carnival participants, figures of an imported and continuously transformed ritual.

Rather than documenting these traditions, I seek to reveal a more sensitive truth—one that emerges from the coexistence of heterogeneous temporalities and imaginaries. Working in close-ups, I fragment bodies to isolate gestures, allowing them to exist as autonomous yet relational elements, like islands within a shifting constellation.

The off-frame space becomes a site of circulation, where connections remain open and unstable, while the flash transforms bodies into sculptural presences, suspended between past and present, visibility and disappearance.

These images function as contemporary votive fragments—organic forms where memory, trance, and transmission intersect. To extend this logic, I created ceramic ex-votos from photographic details, reinforcing the idea of a circulation between forms, materials, and temporalities.

This project approaches truth as an archipelagic construction: plural, discontinuous, and dynamic. A living system of fragments and connections, where meaning emerges not from unity, but from the tension and dialogue between its parts.