2021

Specters is a visual essay that expands the notion of migration beyond territory.

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At birth, we are arbitrarily assigned a homeland, a body, a gender. All of these impositions are susceptible to migration.

Leaving a country requires letting go of almost everything: memories, familiar places, embraces,

and the idea of living definitively in one place, an identity, a way of seeing. Migration appears as a specter.
The image is surrounded by elements of childhood: the light of the mother’s house,

the window of the adolescent bedroom, the mother’s favorite flowers.

 

When we emigrate, we inhabit a limbo in which we are alive in some places and dead in others.