Las Manos de Mi Abuela is part of a visual archive situated in Colombia that explores everyday life as an intimate space of cultural production. Emerging from conversations around care and family, the piece originates in a deeply personal context that allows for an exploration of how tradition and care are transmitted physically and on a daily basis, not as isolated events, but as practices situated in the body and sustained through repetition.

At 93 years old, having been responsible for four generations and living with Parkinson’s, my grandmother’s body exists in a constant state of involuntary movement. Her hands carry the history of my family and a life devoted to care. The work focuses exclusively on them, allowing her condition to be translated into the medium itself: the piece is constructed from a sequence of high-speed images assembled in stop motion. This sequence captures what it means to inhabit, even if only for seconds, her body.

Rather than documenting care directly, the work proposes a reflection on how it persists through the body. These hands, shaped in rural Colombia in the 1930s and marked by a lifetime of caregiving, continue to enact it through movement.