CAA @ Canal Window Gallery – Carmen Sanchez Gomez-Casuso

Sponsored by BioMed Realty

The Gallery Window at CAA @ Canal provides an expansive opportunity for visual artists and organizations to engage with the public in Cambridge’s vibrant Kendall Square area.

January  21, 2026

On view | Carmen Sanchez Gomez-Casuso

Opening Reception | Thursday, January 22, 2026 from 6-8pm

Bio | Born in Santander, Spain (1995), Carmen Sánchez is a self-taught photographer whose scientific background merges with artistic expression through film development and darkroom practice. Amid changing surroundings, her photography serves as a visual diary, preserving connections and creating continuity. She also explores ceramics, fiber arts, and other tactile mediums while developing themes that resonate with her evolving sense of self and the stories she wishes to tell.

Statement | The artist’s layered photographs transform Pumares—her family’s diminishing Spanish village—into a meditation on belonging and impermanence. By overlaying abandoned architectural details with organic textures, she visualizes how memories accumulate: layered, interdependent, blurring boundaries between past and present. This work emerges from decades of visits to a place where time moves differently, where communal meals and ancient rituals taught her about continuity across generations. As rural Spain faces erasure, her double-exposed images preserve not just visual records but emotional landscapes. These fragments invite viewers to consider their own landscapes of memory and the places that anchor identity across time.