In Memoriam Book Details 
Caratula In Memoriam. Artist's book. 2007 
In Memoriam. Installation. 2006 . "... In Memoriam is a name that comes from postmortem spaces and memorials ... is a tangible expression of permanence or, at least for duration, is proof of authenticity ... involves different time scales, moved to this by a registration body or past event and at the same time, in its aspiration of sustainability, it is projected into the future. We understand our name, in memory, the presence of the previously charged absence " [1] .
In Memoriam is past (dis) continuous, remembered and evoked by a pictorial language that is characterized by an emotional narrative, is a proposal that offers a tribute to a loved one party, not as a general experience or everyday life, but as a personal experience but that establishes relationships between a group. This tribute is a work full of visual words and pictures become words, intimate poetic elements, in the project is to clearly reveal the face of death look from the art.
Quotidien Morimura ie we die every day, every moment of our existence is a step toward death, death still remains one of the great questions of human beings in their journey through the world. Said Fustel de Coulanges (1864), "It was probably the face of death when the man had first Once the idea of \u200b\u200bthe supernatural and decided to wait beyond what he saw. Death, which was the first mystery, puts man in the way of the other mysteries, raise their thinking visible to the invisible, the passenger to the eternal, the human to the divine " [ 2 ]
separation from loved ones has been and remains one of the most devastating events that we experience, and although we are reluctant to accept it belongs to the comedy of life. Dying is part of our nature and give it a ritual value is part of every culture, no culture which is not characterized by their way of expressing loss and bereavement.
"Every civilization is the life of his way, which is unlike any other, and each has its sepulchral forms, but it would be as a civilization if it were somehow the (...)" [ 3]
"Every culture is characterized by its way of apprehending and dealing death, his own funeral rites, their practice of mourning and burial, his own assessment of the existence of collective life or individual life. No culture without cult of ancestors, without ritualization of mourning, not places and institutional modes of burial " [ 4]
Perhaps more tragic that the time is precisely the ritualization of mourning, this comprises a series of stages, all equally important , and that death is more natural it is, is the mystery that makes us human. The work of mourning, when death visits, carried out from the memories experiential, material, emotional and among the sharper the image of the absent, more shocking is the experience. Which means that what is imagined is not lost, at least in our memory. This value of the image in the process mourning is recurrent not only in the photograph exponents of cinema have produced films in which once again reflects the fact of death and the work of mourning to name a few: Sixth Sense, So far and so close or City of Angels Hollywood version, Ghost, Hiroshima Mon Amour.
"The work of mourning goes well by keeping a picture of one that is valid for a delivery. If the origin is confirmed, the astonishment at the mortal, download founder of mankind, would entail at the same time the religious impulse and the impulse plastic " [5] .
The confrontation with the body leads to the fundamental drive when we reflect on the mirror of the decline and loss. We are taken to another place where the image becomes the absent presence of the lost object, and all that remains is the nostalgia, the melancholy that tells us how to fill the void of extinction.
In Memoriam is a tribute in the midst of mourning and signifies the most poetic way of approaching already gone, is to recognize the loss in all respects, and release feelings to reinvent the image of the absent. The photographic images, almost always as evaded in the work of mourning, are just the support for this work, an image that is drawn through poems, songs and phrases that enhance the look of the loss, without ignoring the feelings of sadness and nostalgia, do not preclude discover and express the beauty even in pain.
[1] Aninat, Teresita. Thesis "in memory". Universidad de Chile. 2004. P. 46
[2] op. Debray, Regis. LIFE AND DEATH OF THE PICTURE. Paidós editions Iberica SA, Barcelona
, 1994 p. 26
[3] Debray, Regis. LIFE AND DEATH OF THE PICTURE. Paidós editions Iberica SA, Barcelona
, 1994. Page 25
[4] Derrida, Jacques. Aporia; Dying - awaiting (en) "limits of truth"
Paidós Editorial, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1998. Page 77
[5] Debray, Regis. Life and Death of the Image. Iberian Paidós editions. Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1994.Pág. 26
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