Across the different pictures that integrate the series, I explore the virtuality of the main cognitive tools we learn to differentiate the world from us, as a way of learning to question the flesh and embracing the possibility of solipsism as an unsolved philosophical matter. However, beyond the philosophical inquiry that leads the series, it is also an emotional response to the circumstances of isolation we are all living: These days, we need to rethink the boundaries we establish with the world.

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"We can say that there is a mind-body problem because both consciousness and thought, broadly construed, seem very different from anything physical and there is no convincing consensus on how to build a satisfactorily unified picture of creatures possessed of both a mind and a body."

—Robinson Howard

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About
Patrizia Pedraza was born in 1995 in the province of Madrid, Spain. At the age of fifteen, she begins to take the photographs that will constitute the beginning of her documentary stage, and that will culminate in the series Conciencia Colectiva, a project that traces an image of the European social theatre comprised between the years 2010-2020. At this stage, at the age of 18, she is awarded by PHotoEspaña and Fundación Canal as a first-place winner of one of their contest, recognition that influences her later development. Years later, she begins her studies in Philosophy, and she is strongly influenced by Victor Shklovski's Russian Formalism, specifically by the concept of «estrangement» in art. Nowadays, she is an emerging photographer who combines both documentary and formalist inspired photography.

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