Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Fine Art »

I started this ongoing project in 2016 . My intention has been to build a living diary that reflects the changes in each of the stages of metamorphosis growth through which girls have to go from childhood to adulthood and the shifting terrain between them.The girls are four sisters; Laia, India, Gaelle and kali, Lucia and Gabriela, my daughter.

We first met when they were children in a small school nestled in the forest in Catalonia. Over the years, we shared life,history and the familial bonds we form provide the emotional core of the project.

I am interested in those moments of transition between one evolutionary stage and another, highlighting the imaginary world of childhood that is invisible to the adult gaze, the beauty and fragility of puberty, the contradictions and lights and shadows of adolescence, the things we leave behind, the adaptation to change, the new incipient subjectivity and the psychological changes that will come and that will distance one from the closest environment: the family, where everything begins and everything ends.

Life has passed by and the girls have grown up, they are teenagers now and are facing the challenges of being adolescen in today ́s world. Laia, the older sister, left us at the age of 17.

Her absence now infuses the project with a new dimension: memory, absence, loss — but also homage. We continue the work in Laia’s memory, underlining how identity, loss and transformation are part of the same fragile human journey.

I use peel-apart instant film FP-100C that produces both a positive print and a negative; I work with both. The negatives, often imbued with different colours and textures than their prints, give the work a layered, otherworldly quality that underlines the fragile, shifting nature of childhood and memory.