Éter Series

The Éter Series explores notions about ways of seeing, our relationship to images, and the connection between time and photography. I began working on the Éter series while going through a strict quarantine imposed in Buenos Aires due to the Sars-Covid19 pandemic. During Lockdown my temporal perception was strangely dislocated: time became both elastic and disjointed. Time and photography are inextricably linked. Photography allows us to capture a fixed moment suspended in time which we cannot access through our natural temporal perception. It holds the illusion of transcending the passing of time. Without any possibility of traveling, the physical limits were reduced to my immediate surroundings. Virtuality perforated those boundaries. The screen proposes a disembodied image: spectral, phantasmagorical and almost translucent, an image that seems to be always on the brink of vanishing. My Imagination, memories and dreams were all (visual) resources that enabled me to access and inhabit another time and space. The Éter series is born from these experiences. I began to search through my photography archives. In the series, two or more photographs (taken at different times) collide and merge into one whole new image. The overlapped semi-transparencies condense space and moments in time. A visual wrestle is played out between the two images. They partially obscure, veil and transform one another. This fusion creates a new image charged with metaphorical and symbolic power.