“Vaciar la Mochila” literally means “to empty the backpack.” The metaphorical meaning is to take stock of one’s emotional and experiential baggage and to shake off the weight of the things that make it difficult to move forward. I started traveling as a young man with nothing but a backpack, and “vaciar la mochila” quickly became an essential routine for adapting to my surroundings and staying flexible. You have to be good at choosing what to keep, though. Unexpectedly, many years later, I find myself in the situation where i was for long time no able to understand what was the essential. This project staged the destruction of those works created during a phase when art and lifestyle were deeply intertwined in my creative process, and one had become indispensable to the other. I kept these works for years with the idea that they might become my artistic language but at the end it never happened and i found my self trapped in dream that became a container somewhere in Berlin. That was the hardest part to acknowledge. When it comes to managing a backpack, from its weight to how it’s organised, some techniques are more functional than others, but in the end, it all depends on the awareness of the the surrounding environment, the kind of journey and the own capabilities. A backpack must, first and foremost, be true to the person carrying it.
In the end, “vaciar la mochila”, deciding who and what to care on and what, on the other hand, to let go, is an ongoing process in life, and part of it can only be learned through experience.

By recording this process, the weight of matter was transformed into digital memory, just as the weight in the heart was transformed into a lesson.