Solange Baqués
A Story on Paper

Solange Baqués is a photographer and political scientist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In her work, Solange reflects on family ties and the registration of memory. She participated in Proyecto Imaginario I and II and was selected by Yumi Gotto for the Photobook as Object Clinic at Fola (Fototeca Latinoamericana). Her works were exhibited in Albi (France), Rome (Italy), Buenos Aires and Tucumán (Argentina) and Brisbane (Australia).

On this occasion, Solange came to our workshop to materialise –through a micro-Residency– her project A story on paper, a work related to the family album that investigates the images we choose to keep to tell the family story and those we choose to forget. Her project is based on telling her own and her family’s stories using photography, printing and transferring them onto different types of paper, a raw material her family worked with for over 100 years.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I work on the construction of one’s own identity through memory, inheritance, and the family album, in a personal and above all self-referential way. I reflect on the stories that are lost over time and I seek to generate links that can form a plot to prevent them from being lost over time. I seek to generate images that challenge the viewer and allow them to generate their own story.