In the wanderings one might take along the margins and peripheries of a city, one can encounter undeveloped spaces, transitional areas between civilization and nature—abandoned, half-ruined, or under construction, unfinished. The passage of time has allowed nature to slowly reclaim its place in these spaces. In these hybrid environments, where a silent battle for survival unfolds, one can glimpse a peace, a synchronization of the natural world and the absent civilization. This scene invites us to explore the internal structure of the countryside and the process that leads to the formation of these spaces. For a brief period, one can observe how, within these spaces or on their peripheries, the changing seasons and the passage of time are palpable, and how life is born and reborn from its own ashes. Translating this vision of natural space, which seeks to transcend the current human understanding of the natural world—perceived as a space to colonize, build upon, occupy, and exploit—is one of the perceptions this work aims to convey.

This confrontation, this extension of the human being into nature, produces a clash between the advance of civilization and what has always been truly local: nature. During this silent confrontation and these battles invisible to the world, a third, liminal space is constituted, where one can operate freely, far removed from human norms. Fragments is a sculptural installation that transforms the disturbed earth of these liminal spaces into dry clay, with the poetic intention of exploring the uprooting from one's homeland and the displaced and fragmented perception that arises amidst this transition.

This work aims to reflect the ways of inhabiting non-belonging, far from a defined territory. The installation represents fragmented, segmented bodies, traversed by roads, paths, rivers, and seas. Border bodies that are the result of centuries of violence. Extractive logics displace them, divide them, decompose them, recompose them, and assemble them according to the demands and delusions of a market. Fragments manages to communicate the structural violence that affects racialized bodies, evoking the poetry of loss in fragmented bodies discarded on highways, in cities, deserts, seas, and mountains. Through the connection with the land, with the place of origin, it seeks to reconnect with the natural environment not as an object of domination, but as a space for coexistence. The work transforms uprooting into an external perception of who we are and the space we occupy.