"If childhood were a place" is a series of photographs that inhabits a void between the familiar and the strange, with colors and symbols commonly associated with positive events, confronting the gaze by focusing on the artificiality of urban spaces intended for childhood in growing cities that devour trees with flat developments, produced in series that become mazes due to their repetitions. Leaving limited and fenced spaces in the face of insecurity. Grass is replaced by plastic or green-painted cement. The series not only questions the space in which today's childhoods will grow and play, but also evokes past feelings of my own childhood in terms of desolation, attempting to evoke human existence, especially all that we lose and eventually, will be lost.
If childhood were a place
07.01.24 — maria eugenia fitzmaurice cahluni
“If childhood were a place” is a series of photographs that inhabits a void between the familiar and the strange, with colors and symbols commonly associated with positive events, confronting the gaze by focusing on the artificiality of urban spaces intended for childhood in growing cities that devour trees with flat developments, produced in series that become mazes due to their repetitions. Leaving limited and fenced spaces in the face of insecurity. Grass is replaced by plastic or green-painted cement. The series not only questions the space in which today’s childhoods will grow and play, but also evokes past feelings of my own childhood in terms of desolation, attempting to evoke human existence, especially all that we lose and eventually, will be lost.