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The series Thereza is born from an absence; the erased history of the artist’s great-grandmother. Without family records, the photographer has recreated an existence from fragments, silences and traces. Through photography, writing and experimental cyanotype processes, she transforms forgetting into sensorial matter. Photography ceases to be mere record and becomes recomposition — dissolved in water, reconstituted by light, reinvented through gesture. In opposition to linear time, the work proposes a circular temporality, where past and present intertwine. Thereza is a way of restoring life to what once seemed lost and of recognising that nothing ceases: everything transforms into another form of existence.