Jocksangely Perez
La tierra que olvida
La tierra que olvida
Jocksangely Perez
Landscapes hold memory, but some places seem to resist it.
Lanzarote is a terrain in flux, challenging conventional notions of memory and place. Part of one of the most volcanically active regions in Europe, its history has been marked by cycles of destruction and renewal. Not only has its geography been repeatedly transformed, but the continuity of human settlement has been disrupted, erasing traces of life and fragmenting a stable territorial memory.
This project explores the complex interplay between geological forces, human intervention and the act of image-making itself. The island itself becomes an incomplete archive, a space where nature resists permanence and challenges the very notion of rootedness and belonging.
As a Venezuelan artist living abroad, my connection to spaces marked by migration, displacement, oblivion and the impossibility of permanence is deeply personal.
I am drawn to landscapes that resist possession - places where memory dissolves as quickly as it is inscribed. Rather than seeing landscape as a passive recipient of memory, I am interested in how geology actively participates in the creation and dissolution of meaning. This series of photographs deals with sites of transformation, not as documents of loss, but as visual articulations of the ongoing dialogue between human and non-human actors.
La tierra que olvida stems from an investigation into the fragile nature of belonging. How can memory take root in places that defy permanence? Can photography truly preserve memory, or does it only evoke a sense of loss for what has disappeared?