I see your landscape (third archiving)
2025

The work explores the body as an inner archive. As the somatic therapist Susan Raffo emphasizes, experiences of injury, trauma or strain extend across generations and communities, and are housed within individual bodies as affective archives. Drawing upon research into somatic therapies and trauma studies, as well as through the method of Authentic Movement, the work investigates how inner, affective archives shape personal lives leading to diverse ways of carrying what is often held within. Carrying is posited as a critical, creative method, understanding that what the body holds can be felt as a weight and burden, as well as a knowledge for how to survive. As Nirmal Puwar suggests, the inner archive has a physicality to it, a “resonance” that continuously passes across inside and outside, the present and the past.  The work considers this physical resonance as a starting point for a creative explorative process. With eyes closed and protected by an outer witness, gestures and movements emerge that carry the inner archive into the open, and which allows for the cultivation of one’s own inner witness.

Extending from a series of Authentic Movement sessions in collaboration with Oihana Altube, Raúl Marcos, María Escobar, Fátima Cué Pérez, Paco Lidón, Catalina Mahecha, and África Clúa Nieto, the work opens a listening space for inviting deeper attention to the inner dimension. As Janet Adler highlights in her work on Authentic Movement, listening is fundamental to giving room to the multiple voices within.

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