“Public Matter”

“There is a place, for you, for they, for us. let's talk, let's call, let's rise. Today we are one. Let's talk.” Public Matter is an unedited series of images representing some aspects of human behavior, society, and social injustice. I use various lighting techniques to isolate, mutilate, and abstract bodies as metaphors for current social and political issues and mental health status. Some of these are fed by my experiences as a camp queer person raised in a traditional catholic environment in Andalucia and having inherited part of the collective trauma of the HIV pandemic. As a part of a societal and digital age that’s addicted to validation, success, fame, and money, I see myself and my LGBTQ+ communities trying to catch up with an oppressive world and falling into a cycle of additions to fix dopamine, in an attempt to fill up the emptiness, loneliness, and frustrations of living in a world that still hasn't fully caught up with us.