The island of La Palma is represented by a small silhouette in the bottom corner of all euro banknotes, together with the other outermost regions of the European Union. They are perceived as exotic places, out of place in a frontier and globalised context (depending on where the centre is located). This has allowed them to develop the personality of a vague territory of extreme beauty.
La isla de la esquina focuses on several themes, divided into series: the origins of the island and the adaptation of the people to the successive volcanoes, from the Benahoarites, its original inhabitants, to the current inhabitants; the climate and its particular nature for building their habitat; the materials of the island and the forms of a domestic architecture in an angular geography of great unevenness; the ornamental design of the vernacular architecture, mostly formed by geometric patterns of bright colours painted by the islanders in the old fashioned way, which, as a whole, creates a sense of community and is a living archaeology that tells us of European origins – coexists with the black of the ash and the malpais, traces of the re of the lava ows.
These photographs are a small sample of the work carried out between 2016 and 2025.