El Ojo Heredado

The Inherited Eye starts as the result of a random encounter. In March 2018 I discovered the archive of my grandfather, the architect Julio García Lanza. Two of the boxes contained photographs taken to record the models, the works and the projects in progress. This set of black and white images, as evocative as sometimes inexplicable, moved me to a dreamlike, ambiguous and mysterious place where I have felt as comfortable as lost. Driven by confusion, I wanted to establish a dialogue with my ancestor: connecting our family and creative sides, linking architecture and photography. I play the role of the architect in three different chapters to question the limits of authorship and its physicality. Combining several kinds of appropriation in a single body of work, the chapters are organised to apprehend the different stages of finding myself in an inherited context. The archive is a memory substrate; and memory, an unfinished process.