Diana Larrea

Olympia in San Francisco
Photographs
2005

Project granted by Fundación Marcelino Botín.

This work has to do with “Vertigo”, the famous feature film by the director Alfred Hitchcock. Diana Larrea moved to San Francisco to visit some urban settings and major sites in this California city that appear in the film. Once these locations were determined precisely, she underwent a transfiguration ritual whereby herself was converted into a replica of the unforgettable female protagonist of the story, thus becoming a fictitious entity. As if I had travelled devoutly to a sanctuary, this was something of a pilgrimage to the hometown of the legend, with the intention of repeating several of the visual compositions in the movie. Her work, therefore, adopted the form of a ritual of appropriation, by making these already established images my own, and reliving, through my personal experience, each one of these scenes on the same sites where they took place.

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