PROJECT 1.2
2025
An artistic project that transforms personal emotions into a visual and sensory experience.
This project started as a personal necessity of expression, an attempt to register past emotions and important life experiences. With time, and thanks to the professional and academic support received during my Diploma in Creative Direction and Digital Arts, the project started to grow and started to shapeshit as a more ambitious and completed work. Today, this book and project represent a synthesis between what's intimate and what's artistic, it's a space where my memories meet with the cinema, literature and visual arts that influenced me and formed me as a creative person.
The project was transferred into a personal artist book, in which I attempt to portray my life through photographs and fragments of text. Each image is a moment suspended in time, a fragment of a larger memory. Each chapter seeks to reconstruct these moments with both visual and narrative sensitivity.
The photographs—sometimes intervened, sometimes left in their purest state—are accompanied by words, quotes, and artistic references that resonate with the emotions embedded in each image. In this way, the book becomes an emotional autobiography, built through the sensory and the symbolic, where memory and intimacy find their own language.
The creative process was, at the same time, a process of personal exploration. I am especially drawn to creative expression through the visual, which is why I merge photography, literature, installation, and sound to create an intimate, interdisciplinary, and emotionally resonant work.
I don’t follow a linear narrative; instead, I propose an emotional journey, a map of feelings. I explore themes such as transformation, movement, nostalgia, emptiness, longing, solitude, and reconstruction. Each section is conceived as a small installation—something to be observed, felt, and read on visual, literary, and emotional levels.
Ultimately, the project aims to transform an individual experience into a collective one, inviting the viewer not only to read or look at the book but to inhabit it with the body and the senses, especially through an immersive installation.
The tone is intimate, poetic, and honest, with emotional yet accessible language. The goal is not to shock with spectacle but to create closeness, identification, and resonance.
This artistic proposal values sensitivity, introspection, and emotional storytelling without falling into dramatization. The book offers a fragmentary, subtle, and sensory perspective on the human experience while creating a collective space where readers and creators can meet through what moves them, hurts them, or makes them vulnerable. It is not just a work of art; it is an experience—a refuge, a mirror, a meeting point.
What sets this project apart is the interplay between the intimate and the artistic, the coexistence of the personal and the conceptual, and the idea of an “expanded book” that transcends paper to become a living experience: an installation, a conversation, a world. The aesthetic is minimalist, sensitive, and deeply curated. The reader is not a passive spectator but an active participant, emotionally invited into the process. The narrative voice does not impose closed meanings but opens up possibilities for interpretation.
The first artist that I decided to use as inspiration; Ana Mendieta.
As this project was subsequently conceived following the professor’s criteria for the diploma I thought and proposed an event to expose my project, yet it remains fluid, always open to change.
I imagine a presentation that isn’t a conventional event, but a living, breathing experience—a quiet invitation to inhabit the universe of the book without explaining it, without forcing words onto what can only be felt.
Rather than displaying pages, I want to create moments—scenes made of images, fragments of text, traces of sound and shadow—so each visitor can wander through emotions instead of a storyline.
The space would be raw, dimly lit, full of corners where one can pause and stay. Each “station” a feeling, each image a breath. Inspired by artists like Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Doris Salcedo, and Marina Abramović, I dream of an atmosphere where presence speaks louder than spectacle, where silence becomes part of the work.
It is not about telling my story, but opening a space where others can meet their own. A map of emotions, unfinished, for each person to read with their eyes, their skin, their memories.
This is a work in progress. It’s still evolving and taking shape.