The spaces we have inhabited

Many buildings that shaped our memories fade with time. As cities transform, these spaces vanish, yet they hold our stories. Like photographic film, their ruins capture both present traces and the past, reflecting the spaces where we have lived.

Many buildings that have witnessed our experiences end up falling into oblivion. What is the relationship between these spaces and the people who inhabited them?

The growth of cities and their transformations alter the places we inhabit, to the point of making them disappear. They were our homes or, in some cases, places of passage. But it is there that our stories were woven, where our memories were forged. These spaces saw us grow old.

Many of these places, now uninhabited, saw us born, and some were still there when we left. Returning to these places is to remember that we are still alive.

After a few years, we too will end up being those traces that disappear in those same spaces that have witnessed our existence. We will become extinct at the same time as them.

These facades are similar to the sensitive medium of photography. They react to everything placed in front of them; they are sensitive to light and darkness. When we look at these ruins, we are confronted with two moments: the present that accumulates in all these cracks caused by time. But also the past, because we are witnesses to the memory of those who were there before us.

These solitary figures that fade away blend in with the matter existing in space. Our memory is also the space in which we have existed.