basura

This body of work maps the illegal dumping sites scattered across the outskirts of Lleida. I inhabit these places as my studio, using waste discarded by others as the primary material for constructing ephemeral scenes that exist only to be photographed. From these found objects emerge images that invite viewers to imagine—or reconstruct—their own narratives.

The work begins with the act of mapping these sites, a process that fundamentally transformed the way I experience and understand the city. It questions our relationship with the landscapes we inhabit while reshaping my own perception of waste: everything that disrupts the ordered rhythm of urban life, the realities we refuse to acknowledge because they fall outside the frameworks through which we organise life and production. Before we allow ourselves to look, we have already chosen to reject them.

By charting Lleida's illegal dumping sites, I have rediscovered the city through its margins. Moving through discarded objects, I select the materials that will shape each image. Waste becomes both medium and subject, offering access to forms of intimacy that are usually concealed, ignored, or erased.

The project takes the form of a photographic series that embraces chance, error, and disorder as essential elements of its visual language. Rather than correcting what would conventionally be considered photographic imperfections, I deliberately preserve them, allowing contingency to become part of the image-making process. The series was produced on 120 medium-format film, whose material qualities provide the necessary distance from the pursuit of technical perfection, opening space instead for fragility, uncertainty, and the unexpected.