Constelaciones Carbónicas (2022-ongoing)

Constelaciones Carbónicas is a series embodying a personal universe through carbon copy paper maps that include annotations and writings from my daily life, past and present. Echoing the pursue for organising the universe throughout history, the maps are modelled on the codification system of 88 constellation maps dividing the celestial sphere adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

The carbon copy paper is the membrane – or skin – that filters the vast number of notes, lists, sketches, documents, drawings, etc. that are part of my life. Not only do I copy these elements meticulously, but I also deform, enlarge and dismember them; the traces of manipulation are also recorded on the carbon paper. The process creates a layer of illegible information and systems as well as new temporal connections. Carbonic Constellations, in-between map and skin, react, vibrate and move with the air or with the proximity of corporeal movement and respiration.

This is a project in progress: I continue to create maps using notes from my everyday life, recently adding as well material and writings from across generations of my family. The work reflects on our desire to control and organise space and time to give meaning to our existence, and on the disruption of organisational estructures by the passage of time and memory.

In 2022 I presented 13 maps as part of Estadios, Estancias, Estaciones, an exhibition alongside Martin Cordiano at Arroniz Gallery in CDMX. In the exhibition, we continue our long-standing conversation around ways of living and inhabiting places while reflecting on the collapse of time and space. Estadios, Estancias, Estaciones installation shots show my work alongside his sculptural pieces.

• Estadios, Estancias, Estaciones, with works by Martin Cordiano & Lizi Sánchez. Galería Arroniz Arte Contemporaneo CDMX, curated by Lassla Esquivel. Photos by Ramiro Chaves.