Opening: Friday, May 23th In Landing, I seek to retrace life stories of which I am the outcome—narratives I feel to be both personal and collective. They belong to ancestors whose migration journeys were marked by complexity, and in some cases, by the impossibility of ever reaching their destination. Another difficulty they faced was the cost of photography: in nearly every case, there is just one surviving photograph of them, which is usually small and in poor condition. This journey begins by feeding artificial intelligence engines with those photographs and the anecdotes of their lives—a process that embraces both the biases of AI and the fictional shifts inherent to all orally transmitted stories. In this way, new negatives are created, which later become part of self-developed, sustainable photographic printing strategies. In this landing, the sea is both memory and raw material. It is present in the formulas of light-sensitive emulsions and serves as the medium through which the family makes its pact with uncertainty, like the very act of migration.
Image: Federico Ruiz Santesteban, Desembarco