Vestiges
The work defines a delimited space of 40 x 40 cm where 25 handmade candles are arranged equidistantly. Its activation occurs at the moment of lighting: a gesture that marks the beginning of an inevitable process: the process of consumption and disappearance.
Each candle burns slowly until it is extinguished, leaving behind only a minimal trace, scarcely a mark of wax, a vestige of what once was. The sculpture is built upon the paradox of the ephemeral: that which disappears, but also remains in the form of memory and material trace.
The piece reflects on the passage of time, the body, life, and death. Just as the flame goes out but the consumed wick remains as testimony, so too do those who are no longer present continue to inhabit memory. As long as someone is remembered, they never fully disappear: they persist in memories, in gestures, in the remnants that time refuses to erase.
