Good things come together
Our memories are the architecture of our identity. Like discovering a box of old family portraits, this work wants to make you feel like you are looking back on a distant memory, and at the same time, it claims to take you to a past that is not ours, but you can feel familiar with. I want the viewer to time travel as if they had discovered a magical and surreal place, as in photography, where fantasy and reality come together and can walk aside, exploring the phenomenon of twins, identity, and the ties that bind them.
In the summer of 2015, I found an article in a local newspaper that spoke about a town in the State of Kerala where there are a lot of twins; doctors and scientists were investigating the phenomenon, but apparently, there is no logical explanation for why the town has one of the highest rates of twin births in the world. I traveled to this small village in Kerala, in the South of India, and I decided to shoot this series of portraits as if they were old, imitating the "Portrait carte-de-visite" from 1850, as if he had taken a historian or a scientist several years ago, sorting, taking samples, testimonials, and cataloging the twins. As in photography, there is no absolute but interpreted reality, I decided to build a story where reality meets fantasy.