To imagine is to make an image

Abstract

This narrative is born from the need to explore the space of sleeping and resting as an escape and a fantasy. The images are an expression of the desire to get out of reality and the physical condition of the pure body to which the virus has returned us. At the beginning of the confinement, I had the feeling that my body was something that hurt me and that it could easily fall apart. I began to make these images and as an act of resistance to that violence that I was experiencing. I turned to photography as a possible space to invent a place with vestiges of what does not exist. Thus, as Bachelard (1965) mentions, “If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” (p.36).