Through the series "Hiraeth,"(2026),  I explore a profound and visceral nostalgia, a longing for a home that no longer exists or to which one cannot return, transforming my personal memories into a collective visual experience.

This project emerges from my own "archive of affect," rescuing images that document milestones of my biography, such as the departure from my homeland, Spain, and the beginning of a solitary journey. Influenced by theorist Svetlana Boym, my work moves away from restorative nostalgia, which seeks to reconstruct the past literally. Instead, I embrace a reflective nostalgia: one that does not seek to recover lost time, but rather to inhabit the distance between the present and memory.

I employ experimental post-production techniques on the film, filters, and chromatic manipulations to treat the image not as a static record, but as a living organism that suffers the wear and tear of time. The stains, grain, and color alterations act as metaphors for memory: fragmented, blurred, and always in a state of reconstruction. 

In "Hiraeth," vast and eroded landscapes coexist with the fragility of the domestic and the botanical. Each piece is an attempt to "restore" what has been lost through creation, recognizing that the act of remembering is a constant "double exposure". My work does not seek to capture reality, but rather the emotional reverberation of what we leave behind, finding beauty in the imperfection of memory and in the insurmountable distance between the present and the origin.