TOUCHING THE INTIMACY
In front of the sea, arises a project that extends in time and space in which I explore my relationship with nature, my body, and my emotions.
In Lanzarote I created a deep dialogue, where I caressed the intimacy of the water, of the volcanic rock that not long ago was born from the sea. A conversation between the young skin and the old earth. An ephemeral poetry that erodes the black sand through the movement of my body, of my decisions as a human being.
Performance Touching the Intimacy. 2021. Lanzarote, Spain.
Video 4K - 9´34´´
Video editing - Eduardo Palomares.
A frame of the video performance Touching the Intimacy. 2021. Lanzarote, Spain.
A frame of the video performance Touching the Intimacy. 2021. Lanzarote, Spain.
Lanzarote was created more than 15 million years ago, as a volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean. But in 1730 the Timanfaya volcano exploded, leaving constant eruptions on the island for 6 years. A quarter of the island was formed after these eruptions, specifically, the black sand beach where the performance Touching the Intimacy takes place arose as a result of this geological event.
The lava that dried up, and formed the island, also began its erosion by the movement of seawater, leaving tiny grains of black sand eroded over the centuries, closing the cycle of birth and death of the rock. A cycle, with a beginning and an end, like the existential dialogue between my body and the earth, my skin and the water, which is written where the ocean that seems ephemeral is more eternal than the rock it destroys.
Photograph Touching the Intimacy. 2021. Lanzarote, Spain.
My body is born and dies in movements intimately conjugated with the sand that has played with the water for centuries. The sand that is eroded by the constant rubbing of the waves, remains with the imprint of my hands, of my back. In the erosion of time, even the largest rock will disappear.
Photograph Touching the Intimacy. 2021. Lanzarote, Spain.
Photograph Touching the Intimacy. 2021. Lanzarote, Spain.