© Gabriela Torres Ruiz, 2023
About my work
What interests me most about the medium of photography is the ambiguity of an image, the feeling of seeing something with an infinite number of meanings. Thus, photography allows us to abstract parts of what we call "reality" and create new figurative and conceptual realities. Memory is composed of fragmented images that have much to do with our subjectivity: a partial view of reality.
My photographic work is based on the act of collecting and rearranging images from my own archive, which serves to create new associations. My way of creating visual essays evolves around my own doubts and curiosities about the mysteries I encounter in the world, through my own personal experiences and interpretations.
The way we archive images becomes our memory and gives them a new meaning. By isolating a fragment of reality, it becomes an independent entity. When we accumulate a large collection of isolated images, we create islands or constellations, forming a new set in which the images depend on each other without losing their autonomy. When we look at these images without specific narrative evidence, we can see the way in which everything can be subtly connected, despite its physical or metaphorical isolation. It is this fragmented harmony or free association that we use that can create unexpected sensations and ideas in ourselves and in the viewer.