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Taxonomy of Memory — 18 original watercolors on Arches paper, 2025

This series of 18 original watercolors on Arches paper (50×35 cm) investigates Latin American visual identity in the late 1990s — an era of transition defined by globalization and the pre-millennium economic boom.

Taking the dresses of the era as its central axis, the collection functions as a textile archaeological archive. Before the 2000s, the Panama Canal operated as the great gateway for goods, flooding local markets with imported fashions, fabrics, and trends that transformed the social landscape and family photo albums.

Conceptually, the work connects water on two levels: water as the physical force that moves ships through the Canal, and water as the fluid medium of watercolor that fixes pigment and rescues memory from the paper. 'Taxonomy of Memory' transforms the intimate wardrobe into a geopolitical testimony of our contemporary history.

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