Sonia Rangel

My work develops from the exploration of different techniques. Through them I have reflected on my life – sometimes from the perspective of death; not as a dark ending but as a way to remind us that life is not infinite and that every moment has an unrepeatable value. In recent years, pop culture, celebration, and my loved ones have become fundamental pillars of my inspiration. Through intervention and appropriation, I seek to recreate nostalgia and memory: to represent reality in a brighter and slightly surreal way, reconstructing the moments I have lived from an emotional, almost idealized perspective, as if memories were transformed into a more ordered or luminous version of themselves. Documenting my life and creating gelatin molds  – ephemeral forms that decompose over time – allow me to speak about the fragility of existence and the transience of celebration. In video, I find a natural extension of this search: capturing moments, preserving memory, and building a kind of visual diary that oscillates between silliness and poetry.