Toilet Portraits (2013)
Toilet Portraits was one of the first manifestations of my photographic and curatorial impulse. It began with the first ID photo I had when I turned eighteen, taken for the administrative process of resolving my military situation. Instead of photographing the ID in every place I visited, I carried it in my pocket and looked at it during different bathroom visits throughout the city — in friends’ homes, abandoned houses, restaurants, and art schools.
At the end of the journey, as a final action, I placed the ID photo on the lid of my own toilet, framing it as part of the exhibition. That was the last time I saw it. Today, that photograph is either absent or still decomposing somewhere in Bogotá’s sewage system. I am no longer a late registrant for military service. I now belong to the reserve, second line.