16 Necromancy Wishes

16 Necromancy Wishes 2022Collage, Soft Sculpture. I imagined different ways to bring back to life a bird I found dead on the hot asphalt of a border city. In this magical exercise, I applied a taxonomic spell to talk about the small acts of love and courage we silently use daily as tactics of collective […]

Penumbra

Penumbra 2020Collage on Museo Max Archival 250 gr10 cm x 12 cm I named Penumbra the uncertain but potent zone at the margins of a photographic image. During my research process, I examined hundreds of images illustrating the various volumes of the Latin American Encyclopedia El Tesoro de la Juventud. I then realized that the […]

“America Day by Day”: A Counter-cartography

“AMERICA DAY BY DAY”: A COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHY 2019Photography, Writing, Video, Public intervention, Performance. 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 […]

All that happened in an instant and lasts forever

All that happened in an instant and lasts forever 2016-2020Collage In this series of images, the gesture of the photographic assembly of bodies and geographical spaces points to the construction of metaphorical bridges. Narratives of alliances and affections. Visual memories whose family references cross our biographies and transcend as mirrors to be reflected in those […]

Tijuana’s Itinerant Photographers

tijuana’s itinerant photographers 2012-2017Photography, Writing, Interviews, Archive, Video, Public intervention, Learning programs. This project explores the visual production of Itinerant Photographers and their work in the public space of Tijuana over the past seventy years. The set of images collected to form the first archive of this kind provides insight into social and affective aspects […]