The audiovisual project Zapeta (Comma in English) represents a short autobiographical film. The driving thought behind it was to reconsider often-addressed themes used throughout the artist’s practice. The choice of symbols and motifs, which had previously defined the artistic body of work, is here sublimated into a coherent whole, giving them a more elevated meaning.
The comma, as a linguistic tool, symbolically represents a place where the whole is divided into several parts, requiring the reader to pause for a moment, take a breath, and make a break. The video is conceived as an integral whole, which the artist separates with commas, briefly pausing to revisit the building blocks of their memory.
Visually and narratively, the work is divided into stages during which we follow the metamorphosis of the narrator as they walk through the valley of memories. The introductory stage is marked by transformation, petrification, or the petrification of their own alter ego, which, before being liberated again, undergoes a cathartic confrontation with fragments of the past. During the most productive part of the work, a path is traversed that describes the circle of sacrifice to each symbol of creation, thus prompting the subject to engage in the process of healing. By delving deep into themselves, they find the key to liberation from the prison of their own soul. Purified by fire and reborn from smoke, the body and mind — corpo and mente - conquer the darkness and thus free themselves from the ghosts of the past.
