Matilde Benmayor

I have an obsession with webs, roots, and connections that grow and spread in a space. In my effort to understand this, I thought of why, when men landed on the moon, did they feel the impulse to colonize it? Is this human nature or is it ideology? What causes the territorial sentiment of belonging to a place? Why do we need to own everything? I think of social constructions and how this affects me: the organization of a city, the delimitation of spaces, and the rules that make my body behave in specific ways. I am trying to understand this with an intuitive and imaginative approach that lets me, as a social being, be flexible and play in a very stiff terrain. I project my associations into fictions, using psychological content based on childhood fantasies, myths and dreams that challenge reason and allow me to understand what I am experiencing.