Dates:Jan 2025-Feb 2026 Somos animales poéticos is a photobook that brings together my work from the last ten years, developed with the editorial guidance of Justine Kurland. The project is an exercise in disidentification: a space to inhabit subjectivity without reducing it to external categories that seek to fix it. Photography here becomes a medium to explore who we are, examining its uses, contradictions, and limits, as well as its capacity to capture both immediate experience and the systemic forces that shape us. My practice moves across photographic genres and incorporates weaving, collage, and literature. Rather than separating reality and fiction, it intertwines them, opening a space for speculation and desire, oscillating between the political and the fantastic. The book is built from three main sources: direct photographs made over the last decade; personal archives, including family albums, documents, textiles, and childhood zoological illustrations; and historical archives, such as colonial travelers’ drawings of South America. The layering of these materials generates a dynamic space where memory, history, and identity intersect. Plan: My goal is to produce and publish this photobook. The book is currently 80% complete. Dust Publishing awarded a $10,000 grant. The total estimated budget is $25,000, and I am seeking additional funds for its production and distribution. Goals: Finalize, design, publish, promote and distribute the photobook Somos animales poéticos.
