Macarena was born in Argentina, and movement has always been a part of her life. She travelled aimlessly until, eight years ago, Barcelona invited her to stay.
In 2017, a Polaroid arrived in her hands as an unexpected gift, and since then, it has become her primary creative tool. In her images, she explores the beauty of the instant, revealed imperfection, and pure emotion. Her work is largely born from the intimate and visceral chemistry of instant photography: emulsions, analog collages, and other techniques that allow her to narrate what she feels.
He also experiments with 35mm photography, double exposures, and film soups, where he mixes times, places, and moods to invent memories that, although fictional, inhabit his visual universe. Her work speaks of the intimate, the natural, and the feminine. Of what burns and what beats. She works from emotion, and thus she cries out to the world.
Until now, my analog world revolved around Polaroid in all its forms and techniques. I was fascinated by that unrepeatable moment, that image trapped in its own time. Since I began taking the Diploma in Experimental Photography, I discovered the magic of analog photography, the texture of the imperfect, the process as part of the work. It was love at first sight. I was so captivated that I bought my first non-Polaroid analog camera, and I fell madly in love with double exposure. Fusing two moments, two emotions, two stories that in reality would never intersect, but that find their own truth in a single image. As if I could create memories of something that never happened, but that in my visual universe, always existed. Thank you!
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SALT It is an artistic series composed of photographs intervened with Polaroid emulsion lift, where technique and emotion merge to explore the connection between the body, nature and music. Born from my deep love for the sea, music, and the intuitive power of the landscape, "SAL" is a visual journey through emotional states linked to movement, fluidity, and what slips through the fingers. The images, captured in instantaneous format, are then transformed through the manual process of lift, where the emulsion is separated from the original support and carefully transferred to canvases or special papers. This gesture of "peeling" the image becomes almost ritualistic, a metaphor for detachment and transformation.
The compositions evoke the ethereal, the ephemeral, and the sensorial. The textures of the images are mixed with painterly strokes, sea salt, natural pigments, and organic remains, creating unique pieces that interact with their surroundings. SAL doesn't seek to document, but to evoke. It's a collection of moments that don't belong to a single place, but rather to a state of mind: that blend of calm and strength that only the sea (external and internal) can generate.