Project exhibited in Rotterdam Photo 2026
“May your memory not be too fragile,” says Pau Riba in one of my favorite songs. In 2021, I moved to Rotterdam, leaving a life behind to begin a new one. Every time I return home, I am overwhelmed by an immense fear of forgetting all those small moments I share with my family: my grandmother cooking every Sunday, our shop Ca l’Espinach, my father reading in the sofa, all of us singing after a meal... I have this immense fear that nothing will be as it once was, of saying goodbye for the last time and closing a chapter. Distance turns the familiar into something fragile, and every goodbye feels definitive. My aunt Núria says, “Fins demà, si Déu vol” (“See you tomorrow, if God wills it.”) before going to sleep. And it feels as though tomorrow we might wake up and nothing will be there anymore. Photography allows me to make these moments eternal. It gives me access to a space-time where I am not physically present, yet one I can return to whenever I need. I live with the obsession of documenting and preserving so as not to lose. With the desire that, the day all of this is no longer here, I will still have the photographs to remember the days when I was happy.
