Drowned Dreams is a series by photographer Miguel Mas that speaks of paths full of difficulties. Of frustration. Of oblivion. Of disinterest in knowing what people can contribute if they are allowed to.

Through the lives of a group of women scientists who lived between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, Miguel places us in a historical moment in which our protagonists did not generally have access to studies, professionalization, or scientific environments.

Miguel reinterprets old portraits or photographs of each of them with his particular style: with the help of water, the images are broken. Through abstraction he wants to highlight the oblivion and lack of attention they may have suffered at certain times. He speaks of them, but also of all those who were submerged in the depths of history.

In his photography, the obvious, the material is not important. Miguel looks for the abstract nuances that are hidden inside people. Water allows him to open holes through which we can access the complexity and doubts, the fear and determination that hide behind the corporeal. He presents the person not as something physical, but as a fluid entity that sometimes decides where to go, but at other times is forced to move through an established channel.