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Contracartografía del America day by day. Una conversación in situ con Simone de Beauvoir





For this dossier I have compiled the evidence of my counter-cartographic response to the 1947 road trip that Simone De Beauvoir took through the American Southwest. Using her book “America Day by Day” as a map, I traveled 4200 km by car through the spaces that she visited, familiarizing myself with parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. I worked with photography, writing, video, public intervention, and performance as methods of processing my journey.


This journey allowed for a political dialogue to grow between me–a mexican fronteriza artist–-and De Beauvoir, 73 years after her original road trip. Contemporary notions of territory, citizenship and landscape are explored in our dialogical fiction as I experienced the journey in situ, against the grain, and from a decolonial perspective.


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[Retrato de  Simone de Beauvoir ca. 1947 frente a mapa de Europa y Ámerica]
1 impresión fotográfica: gelatina de plata; 20.32 x 30.48 cm. |
Fecha: 1947, Paris, Francia
Contribuidor: Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir

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[Retrato de Lau Fiorio “N” compañera de viaje por Estados Unidos de Beauvoir]
1 impresión fotográfica: gelatina de plata; 12.7 x 17.78 cm. |
Fecha: 1945, Los Angeles, California
Contribuidor: Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir

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[Retrato de Simone de Beauvor y “N”; souvenir del Estado de Nevada]
1 impresión fotográfica: 7.4 x 10 cm. |
Fecha: 1947, Nevada
Contribuidor: Lau Fiorio

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[Vista del paisaje del Oeste; registro fotográfico por Simone de Beauvoir]
1 impresión fotográfica: 9 x 15 cm. |
Fecha: 1947, Oeste de Estados Unidos
Contribuidor: Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir