THE LAST PERSON STANDING IS DOOMED TO EAT ITSELF (2024)

For as long as I can remember, the concept of mortality has scared me. What happens to us when we cease to exist? From this premise came the concept of the photographic project The Last Person Standing is Doomed to Eat Itself. The project is led by an ethereal figure and a medianimic observer. Over the course of 12 images, we follow the figure as it wanders through two scenarios: one of them terrestrial, nocturnal and framed by lush vegetation, and the other an underworld plunged into darkness, with only a very small source of light. The figure changes itself according to its environment, appearing both in black robes and in a white sheet with embroidered butterflies, both representative of the shroud that belongs to it. Acting as a guide, the figure takes the observer to a space outside of consciousness, where only it can illuminate them and where these two consubstantial beings walk through an uncertain path. Their consubstantiality is the touchstone of the narrative that emerges from the accompaniment of the sequence on display. In the terrestrial scenario, the post-mortem observer returns to places of importance to their memory in an attempt to accept their new condition through the subtle reflection of situations lived in those environments. This results in a capturing of what remains: in addition to the places that still exist, the observer portrays themselves in an attempt to recreate what was. To overcome the autophagy of their memories, they are led to understand, by the continuous observation of their past actions, that the reflection created in order to see their person as still alive and living in those environments is, in fact, themselves, and that their condition as a being in the afterlife is inescapable. Thus, they reach pre-acceptance of their presence in an underworld where the reality they knew vanishes and in which they march alone, as an observer-corpse transfigured into a being that illuminates the darkness and that is moving closer to accepting what lies beyond life.