The obsession with filling our lives with objectives, reaching goals and meeting expectations, our own and others, personal and professional, affects all of us but especially the youngest, who are trapped in the permanent demands of competition. Maider Jiménez addresses the uncertainty caused by future prospects in her series Aquí ninguén fala diso, a project selected from the BFF 2022 Meeting of Photography Schools.
Her city of origin, to which she returns at a moment of vital change, is for her synonymous with monotony, a feeling that she condenses in the vision of a wall. The Wall. Two kilometres of stone and metal seven metres high that have always been there, blocking the view of the horizon, which she now sees with new eyes. The wall is a metaphor to express those moments of doubt and frustration, but also as a symbol of the change of direction, since these times of pause often give us the necessary perspective to reflect and make decisions. As the philosopher Remedios Zafra, author of El entusiasmo, one of the essays that has best reflected the anxiety of creative work, says, “There is no thought without time to think”.