This episode of our 2021 video series by visual artist Jusomor and sound artist Lechuga Zafiro is deeply inspired by the re-encounter with our elders during the current times of uncertainty and confusion.

Dejame vivir un día is a collaborative audiovisual artwork by visual artist Jusomor (Argentina) and sound artist Lechuga Zafiro (Uruguay). The Río de la Plata region is heavily striked by unemployment, a health and an economic crisis caused by the pandemic, forcing us to go back to our families house after years of economic independence. Dejame vivir un día is deeply inspired by the re-encounter with our elders: the culture they consume, their bodies, their homes, the memories of our childhood. It’s the rummage of our past and a new intergenerational tie that stimulated us to choose the images and sounds we chose to poetically represent the present we find ourselves in.

The piece begins by citing an anonymous poem from the XV century, Romancero del enamorado y la muerte: «La muerte me anda buscando (death is looking for me).» An older generation seems most threatened by COVID-19, as the virus targets them. Sounds and images rapidly succumb into chaos, as we convey the feeling of uncertainty and confusion that has prevailed through 2020 and the start of 2021.

Dejame vivir un día is about introspection, regression, slowness, suffocation, but also about finding our own artistic voice and expanding the notion of «individuation» through reconnection with a past self.