Imprinting

Bureaucracy becomes relic. Expired documents, ID cards, driver’s licenses, passports — traces of everyday archives. Imprinting gathers the administrative fragments of the artist’s family history — grandparents, parents, uncles, sister — bound together into a single body.

The work is not an archive, but a narrative organism. Personal data become genetic signs of an emotional genealogy. The act of binding is not preservation, but foundation: a symbolic union that generates meaning, giving shape to inheritance.

In an age of dematerialization, Imprinting returns us to touch. Paper, though expired, becomes living matter — a testimony to an identity in constant stratification. Roots here do not lie solely in blood, but in shared memory, in the silent accumulation of past lives.

The work is a counter-tempo: while everything rushes toward digital oblivion or the shredder, it holds. Not out of nostalgia, but with affective precision. A personal atlas, where each document is an imprint — fragile, yet inscribed — of what remains.