Eros is a project that seeks to reflect on the narratives of intimacy and the ways in which we represent human bonds. It stems from a personal archive built from postcards, internet printouts, book fragments, and a red stamp reading EROS, which I used to mark each image as if tracing signs of affection, beauty and love. Over time, Eros became a layered space where historical visual references and my own photographs coexist. I use personal experiences to explore certain questions about my own relationships and affections. Starting with a photograph of my parents holding hands and a photograph of the lake where my moms ashes rest.
The project recognizes that social constructions around love, beauty, and relationships emerge from narratives shaped by both language and images, stories we inherit, repeat, and eventually reaffirm, reinforcing certain ideas, gestures, and canons of the affective and the aesthetic. Eros proposes rereading and challenging these imaginaries, revealing how intimacy, and also what we consider beautiful, is constructed, imagined, and transformed through the archive. This archive also invites a collective revisiting of the images that have shaped our ideas of love, affection, and beauty, exposing the persistence of certain models and their impact on everyday life. By questioning these established narratives, the project opens space for the creation of new affective and aesthetic realities, more attuned to contemporary social tensions.
The project recognizes that social constructions around love, beauty, and relationships emerge from narratives shaped by both language and images, stories we inherit, repeat, and eventually reaffirm, reinforcing certain ideas, gestures, and canons of the affective and the aesthetic. Eros proposes rereading and challenging these imaginaries, revealing how intimacy, and also what we consider beautiful, is constructed, imagined, and transformed through the archive. This archive also invites a collective revisiting of the images that have shaped our ideas of love, affection, and beauty, exposing the persistence of certain models and their impact on everyday life. By questioning these established narratives, the project opens space for the creation of new affective and aesthetic realities, more attuned to contemporary social tensions.