Fading Queen is part of an ongoing body of work revisiting the figure of Juana I of Castile, a queen confined and narrated through the lens of madness, silence, and erasure.
In this image, her figure dissolves into fog, multiplied into spectral doubles that drift across an empty square, as if condemned to wander between myth and oblivion. The monumental architecture looms indifferent, while the mist becomes a metaphor for the systematic erasure of identity, power, and voice.
But this photograph is also an act of self-portraiture. By placing myself in Juana’s absence, I embody her fading —not as a distant historical figure, but as an intimate reflection of how identity can be fractured by illness, silence, and the labels imposed by others. My body, multiplied into ghostly silhouettes, mirrors the experience of being spoken for, defined from the outside, and gradually erased.
Rather than depicting a passive victim, the work stages a return: a body that refuses to disappear entirely, even as it fragments. In this sense, Fading Queen becomes both historical and personal —a meditation on how women’s presence is dissolved, and on how fragility can be reclaimed as resistance.
Through photography, fading is transformed into persistence, erasure into memory, disappearance into voice.
