The procedure of memory loss due to the visual language generated in response to diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia were the starting points to develop the project. My grandmother Berta suffers dementia her relation between image-memory has changed progressively, as younger she created a photo album with her most beloved memories, which are also part of my family archive. Since dementia came into our lives, I was such in need to look over those images but, I was having an encounter with more empty pages and nothing to revive. At the same time, I was portraying spaces from my grandparent’s house: the rooms, objects, moments on my grandmother’s daily life. I see in both an extension of the void that was emerging and becoming part of the routine.
Berta is the life of a woman as a wife, mother, and grandmother, a past that can’t remain in the present.
I dedicated this project to all the people affected by such diseases as well to their caregivers. I want to create awareness that there is no proper cure or treatment, but hopefully one day.
Karla Guerrero (b. 1993, Mexico City) photographer, digital curator, and cultural manager. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, she has obtained Sony World Photography Award, POY Latam, FOAM Paul Huf Award nominee, and the Lucie Foundation Scholarship shortlist. In her new facet as cultural manager she has developed open calls, portfolio reviews, online exhibitions, and blog’s interviews. In 2019, she founded Femgrafía, a platform for dissemination and research on the photographic work of women in Latin America and Spain.