ENFERMEDADES PRECIOSAS | PRECIOUS DISEASES

The series "Precious diseases" represent somatization of the female cycle and its complex relationships with the body, the psyche and the cultural issues. The disease constitutes a metaphor for a state of repression that is liberated and openly manifested. In this way the disease constitutes a metaphor of the precious symptom that exposes a relegated part of our most intimate existence This most recent work consists of photography-based digital post-production operations in which she deconstructs images in order to then compose new portraits that combine elements from different models, thus operating under the notion of the construction of identity. My work has revolved around portraiture since 2008, as an eloquent exercise in the generation of imaginaries, both materially and conceptually, tackling aesthetic, poetic, and political problems about the image. I'm interested in researching about identity, gender, and ethnicity, from the perspective of the construction of body cartographies. My work "Precious Diseases", that gets into a more introspective subject, which comes from what could be called autopoesis*, analyzing both the biological capacity and the tensions between the cultural, social, and natural aspects that affects our body and spirit. The oxymoron -precious diseases- is then understood as a metaphor for the relationship between the apparent and the authentic, artificiality opposed to genuineness. It is an indecipherable body, unutterable a constant uncertainty between possessing a body and to be a body; an interstitial space between designation and poetry; the imposed and the need for healing through the energies that comprehend the relationship between human and nature. Virginia Wolf would say that "being sick is a state in which the sky is best seen". *Neologism proposed in 1972 by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to define the chemistry of self- maintenance of living cells, where a system is capable of reproducing and maintaining itself.