Segunda Pele (Second Skin) is based on the memories of a body that moves in rhythm with life — life lived in the minutiae of daily existence, between sweetness and pain. Each body has a unique trajectory, shaped by choices and losses, and carries on its skin the marks and scars of what has been lived — the second skin. To inhabit the present, it is sometimes necessary to look back, revisit memories, and embrace the old skin, in order to move forward with the layers acquired along the journey. Memories hold the power to revive what has passed, now with the chance to reinterpret recollections that may be completed or imagined through their bitterness, gaps, and incompleteness.

Segunda Pele (Second Skin) delves into the landscape of childhood, when days stretched slowly and imagination ran free. It is in this expanded sense of time that minimal existences reveal themselves — life in its insignificances — the small everyday losses and what we cease to be because of them; after all, who we are today is no longer who we were yesterday. This journey is built through subtle displacements that traverse images of memory (real and imagined), in an attempt to revive the old skin and rediscover the lingering gaze and the poetry of silence from a time that will never return.

The work uses both the artist’s own photographs and family photographs to create images that are at times fragile and faded, at others rough and resilient — just like memories. Segunda Pele (Second Skin) is an invitation to linger, to perceive the small things, and to walk against the grain of senses numbed by the acceleration of the present. It is a gesture of reconnection with the body that still dreams and imagines from afar.

The project comprises the eponymous photographic essay, the photobook Segunda Pele, published in 2022 by Fotô Editorial, as well as two videos lasting 18 and 19 seconds, a photo-sculpture measuring 33.33 x 50 cm, and poems.