Delusion
“Delusion” is my visual representation of the moment when paralysis won. The situation where something, or someone, that at some point protected us, without realizing it, now binds us, stops us. Suffocation.
The balloon, at first harmless, prevents movement and suggests caution for those who are afraid of exploding it. Something happens there, the tension between the protagonist and her surroundings; an unreal, irrational fear, we don\'t know; not getting up, not starting, not moving. The long stillness, when the only consequence of exploiting everything is noise.
I seek to work with the massive object. Where the repetition of something simple makes it take on another meaning. Creating, in a photograph, a new and surreal world; where the poetic is expressed explicitly. The balloon stops being an object of fun, and for the character it becomes a danger.
The fiction we create to be safe is gone when we abandon that stillness. Popping the balloons, one by one, to see that nothing is broken after all. We hear the echo of the last explosion, which tells us that we are now in an empty room, which warns us that now... we have space to create.
Bruno Cesan, Argentina, Rosario
