In these photographs (2019-2020) sculptural shapes are created by attaching and constraining balloons with rope or strings, pushing the air inside the latex surface in unexpected ways. These short lived sculptures are left to deflate after the photographs are taken.

When I saw the first images of the series I noticed my tendency to personify the balloons. Although not traditional portraiture, some images poignantly express human feelings and particularly the paradox imprisonment / freedom. The balloons seem entangled in their own fate. But are they?

The figures "wear" their ties so close to their own skin that it becomes part of their "selves".  They are not necessarily victims: there is something sovereign about embracing our limited condition of entangled beings. In some photographs the ties loosen or the balloons are deflated, even flat. Remains after a process of metamorphosis these sloughed skins still radiate the beauty of who they were.

I used the balloons as tools for painting experiments and found myself surrounded by these little objects, left behind after the studio work, their latex skin full of paint traces, deflating slowly.

I decided to record their existence before self destruction –the latex brakes with time– and I photographed them suspended against a white background in natural light.

I explored the poignant contrast between the beauty of the coloured patterns and the delicate aspect of the balloon against the connotations of decay, mortality, carcasse, aging skin, etc.

These photographs are printed in two sizes on Hahnemühle cotton paper:
940x1340mm / edition of 2
650x930mm / edition of 5

This is a series of 20 photographs. More images in demand.