Lend Me Your Eyes is a project that revisits the photographic archive of my father, a blind and nomadic photographer, produced over four decades. A migrant archive, marked by exile and foreignness, its activation in Asturias connects the images with the displacement of his childhood after the Spanish Civil War and his exile to the United States with his father, Francisco Grande Covián, an Asturian scientist and dietitian.

The archive, produced before and after my birth, accompanied the formation of my gaze. From childhood, my father taught me to look through the camera, to be his eyes and his guide. ‘Lend Me Your Eyes’ articulates an affirmation of visual autonomy and a reopening of the archive from a queer-feminist perspective, in direct dialogue with the images I inherited.

The methodology is conceived as a reflective process, in which the archive—and the reordering of its parts—makes visible its own operations of reading, rereading, and montage. Thus, the archive is understood as an open experience, capable of creating new meanings through its revisiting, and accompanies the narrative and formal construction of the audiovisual piece.