A long-lost hard drive and the death of his father, a housepainter,
Vazquez asked how he might engage again with the sprawling photo diary
he had assembled over the last decade.
Tape transferring, at the heart of his work,
takes everyday and easily accessible materials
and becomes an experiment with everyday materials
developed into a practice that reflects on memory, mourning,
and the shifting material conditions of images
in a state of overproduction.
Employing the same blue 3M painter’s tape his father once used,
Vazquez sets out to find what purpose these images can serve now and how they might be reactivated.
A triptych of large pigment prints,
each image made by scanning the surface of Vazquez’s phone screen
as it plays a video on loop.
