Confined in Buenos Aires
by Lucía Vázquez from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Since the beginning of the lockdown in Argentina on March 20, 2020, the balconies of Buenos Aires have become the only way to absorb some vitamin D and breathe fresh air. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, from my own balcony in the middle-class neighborhood of Caballito I followed, tracked and photographed the daily routines of my unknown neighbors, who like myself have been trapped in their apartments for months — a voyeur looking out at a vertical landscape where time goes in circles. As weeks passed by, I turned to the inside, capturing details of my own confinement. By documenting this, along moments of closeness and companionship among the fatigue — a state of mind that all quarantined “porteños” (citizens of Buenos Aires) share — this project captures a historic period.
