2015
Digital Photography
Photo-documentation a the Ojo Ajeno Gallery, Lima, Peru. 2015.
When considering the use of native plants for medicinal and esoteric purposes, due to the specific healing properties of each one, they are often associated with the benefits of their essence as fruits of nature. Their connection to knowledge of ancestral rituals, growth, regeneration, and an aura of life are some of the qualities attributed to them.
Medicina [Medicine] proposes a distancing from these characteristics, reflecting how, in urban areas far from the original places of planting and cultivation, users acquire them in local markets as dry and withered products. Healing is sought through distance and disconnection.
In this context, the medicinal plants in Medicina are approached photographically, detached from their original environment, making evident how they gradually lose their original essence.