Untitled (I’ve Got it All) 1 + 1 = 1, 2006

This piece represents a fusion of two works: I’ve Got it All by Tracey Emin and Untitled, an installation by Felix Gonzalez-Torres featuring a pile of candies placed in a corner. Through this act of appropriation and juxtaposition, new tensions and meanings emerge, exploring the boundaries between intimacy and sharing, body and consumption, ephemerality and permanence.

I am interested in art both as an idea and as action. How does displacement, repetition, or the disruption of rules function within different creative circumstances and contexts? What happens when these contexts are appropriated, fragmented, and recombined? What new possibilities arise from this process, particularly within Art History, where questions of authorship, originality, and reproduction are constantly renegotiated?

Viewing my work as a reflection of ideas in action, I also explore the role of photography—not merely as a means of documentation but as a device that mediates and transforms ephemeral gestures. In the context of non-objectual art—actions, performances, and impermanent interventions—photography serves as both a trace and a paradox: it extends the life of an event while simultaneously marking its disappearance.

The audience of such works is divided—those who were physically present and those who experience them indirectly through images. This distinction raises questions about perception and memory: how does the experience of an event change when it is displaced into its reproduction? To what extent does the image cease to be a record and instead become a new event in itself?

The photographs of these actions do not simply restore the original moment; they reconfigure it, embedding new ambiguities. Through the act of documentation, presence transforms into absence, the immediate becomes mediated, and what was once ephemeral takes on a new ontological status within the space of representation.

RitaGT 2006