In this project Jonathan Chaparro reflects about the interweaving of emotions, memories and aesthetics built between generations in intimate spaces. It consists of three photographic installations made with translucent and reflective surfaces, light projection and old spaces photographs of his relatives. In this way, he creates various phantasmagorical and introspective sensations that allow to meditate about the time that has elapsed while the spaces of the house are built and inhabited, as well as on the flows and concentrations of emotions gathered in those places throughout the lifetime.

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The project was built from a series of visits, conversations and observation exercises done in the house where Jonathan's paternal grandparents have lived for the past fifty years. The place is located in the south of Bogotá, in Santa Lucía's neighborhood. During the investigation the artist realized the strange connection that existed between the body of his grandparents and space. One of the scenes that affected him too much was when he observed his grandparents lying on his bed, they looked at the mirror on the dressing table with gaze lost. The image in the mirror and the gloomy atmosphere of the site led him to perceive them as if they were immersed in a different time, isolated from the present. From that moment on, he aimed to recreate the condition of space and the time of his grandparents' memories at that instant. This is how he relied on the inverted virtual image of the mirror of that dressing table to imagine his grandparents’ ghostly bodies inhabiting that house in the past. Just like Alice when she went through the mirror, Jonathan imagined himself crossing a portal to a place where his body could be virtually dematerialized to approximate the condition in which his grandparents’ minds were.