EROS

Eros explores intimacy, love, and identity through a personal archive, from my parents holding hands to my mom’s ashes resting in a lake, alongside a portrait of Pixy Liao and Todo y Nada, a 25-year love story that questions how we represent intimacy.

Eros reflects on intimacy, love, beauty, and identity through a personal archive of found images, printed fragments, and photographs stamped with a red EROS mark, tracing signs of affection and desire.

Beginning with a photograph of my parents holding hands and another of the lake where my mom’s ashes rest, the project explores the space between these two images as the place where my own story, identity, and desire emerge. Through the encounter between personal memories and inherited visual narratives, Eros questions how ideas of love, beauty, and human bonds are constructed, repeated, and transformed.

The archive becomes both a mirror with memory and a tool for self-representation, allowing me to reconsider the images that have shaped my understanding of intimacy and reclaim the right to name my own story. By challenging established ideals and affective canons, Eros proposes the personal archive as a living, evolving practice through which we can negotiate our identities and rewrite our narratives.

As part of this ongoing search, I sought out artist Pixy Liao and made a portrait of her while we talked about her work and her approach to representing intimate relationships. Much later, in Buenos Aires, I encountered artists Gisela Volá and Nicolás Pousthomis at the launch of their book Todo y Nada, which recounts their love story over 25 years together. These encounters expanded my exploration of how intimacy is represented, remembered, and reimagined, bringing my personal archive into dialogue with other ways of seeing and narrating love.

Ultimately, Eros became a way for me to embrace my family’s transformation after my mother died, as I was becoming a woman. Through this process, my understanding of connection and intimacy expanded beyond the boundaries of family and romantic love, which no longer occupied the center. I began to experience myself as interconnected with other species, with my own self, and with the world around me.