Veil I (Exercises on How to Disappear) (2022)

During the last year, I began to incorporate text as part of my body of work. I was very excited about the inclusion of new media in my praxis, nevertheless constantly surprised by the weight that words have over a picture and how these words were having a direct effect on how the images were perceived, maybe more than I would have wanted. Veil I is about evidencing that effect. Through data bending, and combining audio and image files, the resultant images are a combination of poems, that are part of the creative process, and photographs. Every image is transformed into an audio file, which is transformed in different ways by adding a layer of sound containing a poem. Different words, frequencies, and the arrangement of a “visual composition” of sound channels change the structure of the image file, resulting in a collage between image and sound, that tries to hide both the original texts and photographs.