Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

The automobile as a body full of social implications. I transit between what is outside and what is inside, I inquire between what is imagined and what is real.

Images taken from the car. Initially during commuting times to work and back home. The fear of being chased by an uncle due to a family dispute over a property after my father died. I confronted him one day when I found him following me. After this, it awakened in me the alertness of looking at my surroundings while driving.

The inadvertent portraits transgress the intimate space that the vehicle supposes and in occasions they come in contact with the public space and with the people who pass it without necessarily being aware one of each other. I overturn in these images a certain anxiety. I explore mechanisms of memory and time, as well as ideas related to the privilege and status of the automobile, and like a norm and device to understand and inhabit a city.

The process between capturing and developing the images takes weeks, not seeing them until the film has been fully developed allows me to rediscover moments that I vaguely remembered and on many occasions with a plasticity force that is beyond my control and that exceeds my capacity of composition at the time of the capture. Through reflections, spaces, subjects and different layers coexist in those precise seconds, the juxtaposition that results has allowed me to discover even more than I could see at that moment. It has been an encounter experience rich of freedom, playful and wildness.

The automobile as a body full of social implications. The mirrors, both in the camera and in the car, allow me to see in different directions. I transit between what is outside and what is inside. I inquire between what is imagined and what is real.