“Absence is regarded as a chance for the act of representation, as a reason for the portrait. The scenery emboiding its invention is a sentimental device: the image is a keepsake of the missing, of the one going “abroad””.

Jean-Cristophe Bailly

The Expulsion from Paradise is an approach to the abstract idea of exile through the self-portrait.

Exile; as a journey that anticipates a return, to be “outside of” or “to have left from”.  As a movement that leaves the own place (even from the own portrait). Out of place, out of one’s native country, familiar surrounding, far from where the self takes presence: falling, leaving, geting away.  Alienation, as essential

drama for the development of the being.

The series operates as an experiment on the deconstruction of the photographic medium itself.

Breaking the rectangular form that contains the photographic images, we change its structure;  through fragmentation, repetition, ellipsis, rhythm, and the disapearance of the unique image, the picture becomes writing, text, and thus,  the event re-writes itself.

Carefully composed, the diferent modules that conform the pictures show an open narrativity in wich the image is a keepsafe for the missing story.