Can I Close the Window?

is an intimate dialogue, a story told in two voices: the traces of a five–year love that dissolved into silence, leaving behind only words and images. She, a Mexican writer. He, a photographer from Barcelona. They never met again.

Texts once written for other reasons, in other times, lean against the photographs, shifting their meanings, opening secret passages. From this encounter emerges a fiction built from the real: a meditation on home and estrangement, on love and its undoing, on absence, mourning, and the fragile terrain of memory.

As an afterword, fragments from the author’s diary—written in the depths of depression after the breakup—cast a final light on the story. Most of the photographs were taken in Mexico between 2008 and 2013; the others belong to the scattered geography of crisis.