Converge/Preserve
The Abstracted Blueprint
A glitch in the system is an irregularity, a disruption, a moment of confusion as the system tries to solve a question which may never be answered. The question: 'How do you identify?' rarely has a straight answer in the context of diasporas. By combining current documentary photography with family archives from Argentina's last Jewish gauchos, a diaspora from Eastern Europe that is facing extinction, the Converge and Preserve collage series visualizes the beauty, complexity and confusion that occurs in these cultural 'glitches.' The outcomes are never consistent and constantly evolving, with a multitude of perspectives sometimes at odds with each other, and endless lessons around migration, tradition, assimilation, identity, politics, survival, trauma, innovation, and preservation buried within.
Exhibited in the WIRWIR Project Space in Berlin, 2024,
The Abstracted Blueprint imagines are cyanotypes with digitally printed negatives - the structures explore architecture's geometric and abstractions captured with a zoom lens and digitally manipulated.
Exhibited in the Panopticon Gallery, Boston in collaboration with PCR, 2021.
Human Saturation
Why do we visit places when we are complicit in their destruction? In traveling and photographing throughout Argentina, I was confronted with humans’ ability to unapologetically saturate our surroundings. This permission we give ourselves to enter ecosystems whether they be in nature or communities, created the basis for this series which shows a progression of cavalier human invasion and exploitation for leisure and consumption.
Playing with my photos from indigenous communities facing increased tourism in northern Argentina, melting glaciers and endangered species in Patagonia, combined alongside an ever-present saturation of humans, my collages are self-critical surrealistic representations of our unhinged role in the world and the irony of tourism.
Exhibited in 90mil Project Space in Berlin as part of the group exhibition with Tendermesh, and in the Kiezkapelle as part of the group exhibition, Cadavre Exquis. 2023