Lot D

In Abuela en el Mar, Ernesto Cabral de Luna uses a cherished family photograph of his grandmother on a 1960s vacation to explore memory, migration, and inherited distance. Transferred onto broken coloured glass, the image becomes a fragile yet luminous reflection on the nature of preservation. The blue glass evokes the ocean from the original photo, its colour trickling onto the clear shards below—suggesting memory’s drift across time. The sea becomes a metaphor for displacement and the barriers separating diasporic individuals from our roots. Through this piece, Cabral de Luna reflects on the complexities of immigration and the longing to reconnect with family and cultural heritage.