Te Prohibo Que Me Olvides /
I Forbid You to Foget Me
PersonalI Forbid You to Forget Me is an ongoing series born from the death of my mother in 2019. Sifting through the things she left behind, I found an image of her I had never seen before. Underneath her portrait, she wrote “Te prohibo que me olvides,” translating to “I Forbid You to Forget Me.” The series investigates two contradictory urges: the archival urge to reflect upon the past and the conceptualist urge to bend the process of reflection toward the practice of contemplating. The collage method is intended to create tangible pieces that mirror the weight of grief. Layering my mother’s fabric over images of her, freezing photographs in ice, and embroidering “Sana sana colita de rana” onto family photos — a childhood rhyme, translating to “heal, heal, little frog’s tail,” that my mother used to soothe me. I find myself obsessively repeating this phrase, reframing images from a different perspective, and spinning the narrative into a prism. Text disrupting the image, the memory, like a relief map. Weaving past and present together.
Featured:
Innovative Grant
Fotofilmic
Centro PR
Syllabus Project
It’s Nice That
Da Da Duende Record Club
Ain’t Bad
Riposte
Year
2019-Ongoing