
Vengan a comer mi cuerpo
- Publisher
- HYDRA
- Year
- 2026
- Specifications
- Sheets and diptychs
Vengan a comer mi cuerpo (Come to Eat My Body) is a photobook in which three inseparable realities confront each other: flesh as an intrinsic dimension of living matter; the consciousness that inhabits it and whose existence depends upon it; and the ineluctable certainty that this flesh is condemned to decay and perish. Its ruin entails not only the end of matter but also the extinction of the consciousness that once knew it as its own body. The biological condition, however, is not defined by its foreseeable end: a brutal pulse compels it to grow, mutate, transform and persist, often independently of the will of the consciousness housed within it. As a patient living with an incurable, progressive and disfiguring disease, the author casts aside the modesty of self-censorship and exposes with utter directness the starkest reality of life surviving by growing against itself. Each sheet, each diptych, is a self-portrait. The chosen materials also carry meaning: the arrangement speaks of the unpredictability that awaits with every turn of the page, of an appropriation of the sacred, by printing a sacred text of its own on the same material on which the classics are printed, and of the degradation the object will undergo, made singular by the hands of whoever reads it.