Un Solo Punto de Apoyo (A Single Point of Support)

What began as a study of balance driven by a persistent feeling of falling during early motherhood, became physical when a foot injury forced me to find balance on a single point of support. As my one-year-old son was learning to walk, I suddenly couldn’t

Un solo punto de apoyo (A Single Point of Support) is an artistic research project exploring bodily perception through the relationship between weight, balance, and motherhood.

It began with a sensation rather than an image, shortly after giving birth. I became interested in falling not as a single event, but as a continuous state: losing balance, touching the ground, recovering, and falling again. This led me to think about balance as something we do rather than something we have, a constant negotiation between weight, gravity, and support.

I began gathering references. Watching my son crawl, stand, and walk made me increasingly aware of balance and the surfaces that support the body. I also started looking at other bodies that consciously engage with balance, particularly those of dancers and athletes, and became interested in the tension between control and instability.

The study became a lived reality at the end of 2021. While carrying my son down the stairs, I stepped on a set of keys left on a step and fell. Protecting him, I took the full impact through my foot and tore a ligament essential to balance.
I could no longer observe balance from the outside. I had to experience it through weight, pressure, pain, and the constant adjustments needed to remain upright.

The work brings together 35mm and digital photography, video stills, and illustration. It includes exactly one hundred drawings of people falling and nearly one hundred video stills capturing bodies in the process of falling, recovering or finding their balance.

As the work develops, I explore movement and balance through choreography with dancers. This process takes me back to the central question of the project: how does the body find support when its balance is disrupted? I am interested in the space between falling and standing, and in how the body continually adjusts to find its footing, sometimes with only a single point of support.