The bastard son of the Revolution
2025 - on going
Project in development that begins with a ghostly figure: the body excluded from foundational narratives, the illegitimate child, what is born outside the authorized lineage. This image, both symbolic and structural, serves as an entry point to explore the edges of history, dislocated masculinity, interrupted genealogies, and affections that have no name.
Far from reconstructing a personal narrative, the project unfolds as a visual and affective investigation around remains: intervened images, portraits, symbolic objects, and gestures inherited without explanation. I’m interested in thinking of the bastard not as a lack, but as a critical condition: a place from which to imagine other forms of belonging, other relationships with the past, and other possible masculinities. The bastard here operates as a metaphor for what doesn’t fit: what has no founding father, what has been denied, hidden, or discarded by the structures that define legitimacy. It is also a way of thinking the political from within failure, fracture, and the out-of-frame.
The Bastard Son of the Revolution does not seek to confirm a history, but to accompany its rubble. It is an attempt to compost the ruins of the patriarchal narrative, allowing twisted, fragile, bastard images to emerge from that soil—images that do not affirm, but question; that do not represent, but slip between the visible and the unspeakable.
Project in progress with the support of the Jóvenes Creadores grant from the National System for Culture and the Arts, 2025 period.
