Reverso offers the possibility of a new search in one’s own biography, of exhibiting a production that suggests a space for rethinking both the mysterious and the private. Thus, from the perspective of trauma, to bring out a place that is also capable of triggering, through new fictions, the illusion of an exorcised memory or a possible healing dismemory.

Through an autobiographical archive of strange and fortuitous records, the work explores the possibilities of resignifying trauma, with the game and the error. A bunch of images collected from the family’s original VHS archive from the ’80s are juxtaposed with another series of images of captures and screenshots of failed sendings from a cell phone to close friends —the current family— in 2020, during the lockdown. The series of 5 digital photomontages and the artist’s book in which they were later included were produced in January 2021, at the Soma Mexico Residency in Mexico City.

The work presents an execution of visual compositions dealing with ruin and ominousness, creating a new reconstructed universe in a violent and fractured setting. This series intermingles in merged shots, glazes from one image to another; as a metaphor of the hidden world behind a lost family album, and the erroneous events that through the chromatic interplay pretend to raise the need to reprogram the past when a different future is expected. Based on a kind of symbolic alchemy, the digitized production exhibits a process of intimate resilience —or the opposite of a habitual creation of work—, encouraging sensitive, aesthetic, and political new understandings of the private turned public.