Photography, writing, video, public intervention, and performance

2019

My counter cartographic responds to Simone De Beauvoir’s 1947 road trip through the American Southwest. Using De Beauvoir’s book “America Day by Day” as a guide, I followed her traces and traveled 4,200 km by car through California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. This journey allowed a political dialogue to grow between me a Mexican fronteriza visual artist– and De Beauvoir, 70 years after her original road trip. This dialogue explores notions of territory, citizenship, and landscape from a decolonial feminist perspective.