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What if walls could talk? Share their stories, what they’ve seen, felt; the memories they hold, like echoes, rippling through our everyday life and person. Omniscient, they know. They are like ghosts, or ‘fantasmas’, in Spanish. This translation into English is not quite a complete one, though; a ‘fantasma’ is something between the amorphous, both sentimental and symbolic. Charged with a particular energy, they inhabit the worlds of nostalgia, yearning, respect and wonder.

Sofía Salazar Rosales’ (b. 1999, Ecuador) practice speaks to said ‘fantasmas’. Drawing from the languages of sculpture, …