I went to the Guna indigenous community in Panama to collect images in order to go back to the laboratory to compare and analyze the findings.
I knew the camera could be an obstacle. Well-known is what indigenous think about photography and its threat to steal our soul. Also there are many photographic works that look these people as "primitive", "different" or just "exotic". Although last century social studies changed a lot the way they study these cultures , we still see many works that just want to reaffirm o justify an idea of superiority, always reifying any different one.
I aimed to make images recording objects and people through casts. This method allowed me to approach to the experience from a certain materiality and on the other hand, to work in a similar way as photography does, in an index way.
The project rather than making a difference between them and me allow us to observe the boundary between the objects and the void. Between the tangible world and the intangible. I think about history as discontinuous fragments of temporalities that sometimes overlap without following a linear structure. Relating fragments allows me to think others ways of seeing.
