Álbum posible: una vida en el trópico

Abstract

The Possible Album: A Life in the Tropics is an interpretation–creation project that proposes the construction of a family photo album as the result of an exercise in remembrance and archival tracing of my mother’s childhood and her intermittent passage through two families. This practice of evocation takes possibility, orality, and listening as its means, which in turn draw upon memories, their diverse narratives, and the photographic archive available in the homes my mother inhabited. This serves as confirmation that the utterances of memory are necessary to resist its fissures and, consequently, its effects. It is a photo album consolidated through the possibilities of memory to alter, reconfigure, and imagine a childhood that unfolds between two places — an album permeated by oblivion, the past, and the present.