Botanic Art

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"Touch your skin" is photographic report, the result of the visit to 19 families victims of femicide in Uruguay. Manu Aldabe toured Uruguay visiting families. This project was declared the cultural interest by Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, winner of Competitive Funds for Culture 2016, Selected for the National Hall of Visual Arts 2016, exhibited at the National Museum of Visual Arts of Uruguay. Also exhibited at the Museo de la Memoria Buenos Aires and around all Uruguayan cities. 

“I ask permission‚ I arrive with a tripod‚ slowly‚ with patience. I choose long exposures respecting the light and the place‚ seeking to eternalize that absence that when it was presence wore that dress‚ that bracelet‚ those pants. I seek to capture what was left of her‚ her mark. When the mother‚ daughter‚ or sister unfolds the garment there is a display of affection that brings us closer to the rite. That memory‚ that silence turns into mourning. I take the photograph. The light picks up the energy of that space. The accumulation of cases breaks with individuality and exhibits it as a phenomenon of social dimensions that contradicts the concept passion crime.”

A special thanks to the relatives who opened the doors of their houses, their wardrobes, their memory to me. Manu Aldabe