Territory
Body and territory
What happens when we stop thinking of the territory as a stage and start to feel it as a body that also sustains us?
In this series of photographs, the gaze shifts the idea that humans are separate from the earth. Body and territory are part of the same fabric: both are vulnerable, both need care, both hold memories. This work reflects on the idea of belonging. It is not about owning a place, but about being part of it. When the body takes root, even if only for a few seconds, a new quality of presence emerges: broader, more conscious, more vulnerable. The photographs capture that moment when the boundary between skin and landscape, the rocks, becomes porous and reveals that creation is, in essence, an act of relationship.
Deep feeling and listening
The creative process began with a kayaking trip. Among friends, and in deep connection with the elements. Before photographing, I try to listen to the rhythm of the spaces. On this occasion, it was the movement of the water as we sailed and, upon arrival, the almost ancestral solidity of the rocks. The way the wind seeps between the stones, the moisture rising from the ground, the way a particular light can transform a surface into a grammar. When the human body appears in this equation, I don’t think of it as the protagonist, but as just another element of that ecosystem. The skin dialogues with the textures of the environment; gestures respond to invisible forces such as temperature or sound.
Photography, here, functions as a sensitive map. I am interested in how the body can remember these territories, and how the territories, in turn, leave traces on the body. In the images, I am not looking for drama, but rather an honest relationship: the body that surrenders, that listens, that allows itself to be affected. There is something profoundly transformative about blurring the boundaries between the human and the natural; it is a reminder of our interdependence.
"The sensation is what is transmitted directly, and it is the body that experiences the sensation." — Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon. Lógica de la sensación
In my experience, creating from the territory means allowing the body to receive sensations without filters, as Deleuze suggests: a direct, almost electric exchange. Each photograph is born from this porosity and listening, where the landscape passes through us and transforms us. In this silent dialogue, new ways of belonging, imagining and existing are revealed.
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