Tomorrow will come, but you will not come / Vendrá el mañana, pero tú no vendrás

Through the use of lumen prints and chemigrams, the work subjects images from a personal photographic archive to a process of deconstruction. The action of sunlight and chemical agents causes a progressive erosion of the image, shifting its original visual nature toward a state of traces and residual forms. This visual loss does not entail the erasure of meaning; rather, it seeks to activate a fragmentary memory, where absence becomes a constitutive element of the archive. From the vantage point of the present, the work operates as a form of self-representation mediated by an incomplete and deconstructed past.
The degraded image reveals an incomplete identity, seeking rebirth and acceptance amidst remnants, voids, and reconfigurations; in doing so, it reflects on the ways in which the photographic archive plays—or fails to play—a role in the construction of memory and the self. To remember is to rewrite: to accept the effects of time and wear, and to find meaning in what persists even after the original form has been lost.