Dai

2013–present. In 2013, a number of crimes committed in Spain were brought to trial, cases that deeply affected the public due to the vulnerability of the victims. Moved by these events, we began an extensive investigation that led us to discover and document a large number of deaths and disappearances that had taken place across the country over more than a century. The project gradually took shape as we identified a common thread running through many of these stories: remote, silent landscapes that had become concealments for the darkest events. These places, capable of holding secrets and hiding what has happened, form the narrative backbone of this work. The photographs that make up Dai present constructed scenes open to interpretation, incorporating key elements of the murders while intentionally withholding specific information about each crime they reference. Many of these deaths generated intense media attention at the time, often driven by a desire to expose their most sordid details. For that very reason, and in response to such sensationalism, we chose not to fuel that kind of curiosity. Yet behind every image lies a true and documented story.