The layers of images produce an almost abstract form, which receives its historical significance the more you deepen your gaze. The details betraying the ritual event of photographing the group near the moment are slowly exposed. In addition to commemorating the horrors evoked by these images, the work illuminates the social archetypes created in the process of preserving historical memory, with the images operating as a sort of collective unconscious in need of deciphering.
This work can be seen as a critical reading of the information offered in cyberspace and an attempt to use it to make a point. Perhaps it also ridicules the official state trips to the concentration camps by flattening the drama of these sites of destruction into a standard template of group tourism documentation.
Vapors deals with national memory and the attempt to contain it through photography. It refers to the appropriation of the public dimension to the private, and locating art on the borderline between those spaces.

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