Second Skin draws from the memories of a body that walks in rhythm with life — life lived in the minutiae of everyday moments, between sweetness and sorrow. Every body carries a unique trajectory, shaped by choices and losses, and bears on its skin the marks and scars of what it has lived — the second skin. To inhabit the present, it is sometimes necessary to look back, to 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, making it present once again, now with the possibility of re-signifying recollections that may be completed or imagined through their bitterness, gaps, and incompleteness.

Second Skin dives into the landscape of childhood, when days stretched slowly and imagination ran free. It is within this expanded time that minimal existences are revealed — life in its insignificance — and the small daily losses that shape who we cease to be, for who we are today is no longer who we were yesterday. The photographic essay unfolds through subtle movements that traverse images of memory — both real and imagined — in an attempt to relive the old skin and rediscover the lingering gaze and the poetry of silence from a time that no longer returns.

The work uses the artist’s own photographs alongside family archives to create images that are at times fragile and faded, at other times rough and resilient — just like memories. 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 afar.

The project comprises a photographic essay, videos, poems, a photo-sculpture, and a photobook published in 2022.