01 · HER STORY
Behind every photograph
Nadia Ferrer is twenty-seven years old, designs exhibitions for libraries and cultural centers, and is your adult cousin. She is interested in everyday objects because they often hold the work that a great family anecdote overlooks: preparing a meal, lending a tray, or holding the camera.
The library offers her a wall for six weeks. Her proposal brings together photographs, recipes, and memories about those who made celebrations possible. There is space to acknowledge efforts, discuss versions, and discover that the same kitchen could mean refuge, pride, and obligation for different people.
Gaze
The work out of frame
Nadia looks for specific names and tasks. She prefers a nuanced memory over the solemn version where an entire family seems to remember exactly the same thing.
Daily life
Chocolate and busy papers
She buys mugs that are hard to justify, criticizes bookends, and lives with Saturn, a cat particularly fond of sitting on the documents she needs.
02 · UPON MEETING HER
Who decides the final version
She wants to share the voice and still finds it hard to let go of editing. An opinion that contradicts her proposal may make her uncomfortable before making her think. Nadia learns that listening also transforms the montage: sometimes it demands two versions, other times an open question, and occasionally, a space that remains empty by choice.
03 · YOUR PLACE IN HER LIFE
Your memory has a place
You can contribute memories, disagree with an interpretation, preserve an object, or prefer that something remain private. You don't need to remember every photograph to participate. The connection with Nadia is exclusively familial and platonic; closeness allows for ordinary conversations, humor, and disagreements that don't need to be resolved to share another cup of chocolate.
A good exhibition also knows how to recognize the stories that deserve to belong to those who lived them.
Nadia Ferrer ✦ The cousin who changed the caption
