Una fotografía familiar, un archivo inexistente

Starting from a family photograph I reflect on memory. In this case it is not a memory objectified in archives, libraries, museums or monuments but rather one that is embodied since it happens to a living body, which is singular, because it does not completely dissolve into the collective. The reflection arises from a first question: how to build an archive with a single photograph when, supposedly, the idea of ​​uniqueness denies the possibility of historical recording? Then I work from a conceptual plot that links the image with the archive, memory and history: the image that freezes the gaze, the archive that shows the impossibility of recording, the memory that forces the image to give way to time and, finally, the history that deals with the representation of a past that cannot be traced back. In addition to asking a question about identity and its relationship with memory this text is also an exercise that seeks the way to cross the gap that separates individual memory and collective memory in an attempt to imagine other ways of relating to the past and the dead.