The Silent Grain Series
The Silent Gray is a photographic journey through three cities that inhabit and define me: Bogotá, my birthplace; Nantes, my city of refuge; and Paris, the dream city for the artist yet a utopia for the migrant. Between these geographies unfolds a dialogue of belonging and estrangement, where the act of photographing becomes both a map and a mirror.
Through the gradual transformation from color to gray, I inhabit a suspended space —a liminal zone where memory, distance, and disappearance coexist. The black and white image resists clarity; it invites silence. In that silence, I trace the blurred boundaries between presence and absence, body and territory, home and elsewhere.
Self-portrait with naked subjects from Paris In the dim reflection of a Parisian storefront, presence and absence intertwine. The mannequins, stripped of their purpose, stand as silent witnesses to the city’s nocturnal stillness. Between them, a faint silhouette —my own— emerges, dissolving into glass and shadow. This photograph is a meditation on exposure, anonymity, and the fragile line between the observer and the observed.
The night and the streets become my companions. The high ISO grain of analog film turns into a living texture —an echo of breath, a residue of time. Each photograph holds a vibration, the noise of the image becoming the noise of existence itself.
In Self-portrait with naked subjects from Paris, mannequins stand behind glass, stripped of origin or purpose. My reflection appears among them, faint and uncertain —a fleeting presence dissolving into the city’s surface. Paris, with its luminous promises and invisible thresholds, reflects the duality of desire and displacement that runs through the work.
The Silent Gray is an ongoing attempt to find what remains in transit: a self that migrates through cities, light, and shadow —searching not for belonging, but for resonance within the spaces in between.
