"La repetición de la ausencia o De repente la gente desaparece". (2021)

Electroacoustic composition. Experimental video.

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Memory, Solitude, and the Child's Imaginary During Pandemic Isolation

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This work, commissioned as part of Terra Nova’s Second Intercultural Cohort in Belfast, Northern Ireland, critically examines the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental and creative well-being of artists and their communities. While each participating artist defined the specific community they engaged with during their creative process, my own chosen community for this project was my family.

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My contribution to this cohort directly addresses the implications of the pandemic's most critical phases on the imaginary of children and, subsequently, their perceptions and relationships with the "other." A central tension within this exploration lies between memory and solitude, particularly how the isolation enforced by the pandemic shaped nascent memories and individual experiences.

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Specifically, I developed both the sound work and the visual proposal to articulate the pandemic experience from my young son's unique perspective as a child. This work delves into the solitude children often faced, even within their homes, and how their developing memories of this period may be uniquely shaped by confined experiences. Integrating my son into the visual work served as a symbolic act of spiritual healing through the modalities of acting and play, providing a pathway to process and externalize the internal landscape forged during a time of unprecedented global isolation.

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