ARCHIVE TO GET MYSELF BACK

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ARCHIVE TO GET MYSELF BACK is a performative novel by Roma Vaquero Diaz, published by La Balsa Editora in July 2025. The book condenses an artistic investigation begun by the authora in 2020 around autofictional writing and the performativity of images, forming a living, affective, and experimental archive that questions the ways of narrating, preserving, and reconfiguring memory through the body, photography and writing.

ARCHIVE TO GET MYSELF BACK is a book that sets languages in motion in search of that which can be named. Roma composes a narrative in which the biographical and the fictional are imprinted in the insistence of a diverse writing style. Together with Federico Paladino, editor of La Balsa, the project is brought to life on paper through risography and print art processes, reinforcing its hybrid and performative nature.

 

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ARCHIVE TO GET MYSELF BACK
Roma Vaquero Diaz
Published by La Balsa Editora
Epilogues by Natalia Romero, Romina Casile, and Valeria Sestua.
156 pages / 6.3 x 8.7 inches / 2025
Edition of 250 copies
ISBN 978-631-00-9182-2

 

“An archive is more than a collection of images and words; it is a way of tracing links between what persists and what fades away. Archive to Get Myself Back is a performative novel in which Roma Vaquero Diaz unfolds memories, gestures and complicities to tell a story that is composed with the movement of her hands in the air.

In this intimate and fragmented exploration, writing becomes a strategy for recovery, paying homage to the bonds that sustain and accompany us, and for reinvention, as a way of rearticulating identity, memory and loss. In other words, it is an invitation to perceive what language cannot always name, to attend to the subtleties that emerge between bodies and to follow the traces drawn by gazes.”

Romina Casile (Back cover)