Somewear

I moved from my country to live abroad. Taking this decision made me think about home in another way. I realized the urgent need of redefining my idea of Home and create a ground for a new one.

The house is a nest for dreaming, a shelter for imagination. It is the shell that contains us in an age of so much homogenized space and plastic structures. It is our first universe before getting to the real world, so when we exit our little corner of the world everything becomes anonymous. I realized how important was to reinforce my identity in order to be able to relate to this unknown place.

I had all these questions about myself, so I placed myself in front of the camera, like a mirror in an infant’s emerging perceptions of the selfhood in order to develop the idea of the “I” against the others. During this process I started to discover myself in a different way. "Somewear" is a series of self -portraits, which struggle with the idea of identity, fabrics becoming the skin in which we project our identity. Setting my body in front of the camera has been a way of looking myself in another way, trying to answer all those questions about who we really are. Society, family and the generation we live in, make this journey even harder. We camouflage as animals do or even soldiers, in order to survive. It’s our way of being inside a system. It’s like a game, if it fits, your vision can be deceived creating almost an optical illusion.

Is it possible to isolate our more pure self from everything that it’s attached to us? Somewhere we can find these answers or not. Maybe the real answer is to learn how to live with this but not forgetting to look inside.