US-based Mexican sculptor and photographer.
Colorful celebrations as a form of protest,
and joyful protests as a way to defend the dignity of a community.
Research Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist working in the intersection of sculpture, painting, photography, performance, poetry and installation.
My revolves around the defend and humanization of immigrant communities in the United States. I explore art as a form to individualize and humanize people who are often reduced to identities that often carry negative connotations in a politicized nation.
Materiality is at the heart of my practice. My sculptures are often made out of objects that belonged to or were made by immigrants: clothes worn to work, poems written from a mother to her child — I transform these objects and I create sculptures with them, materializing emotions, stories and journeys into tangible works of art.
My aesthetics are inspired by indigenous and post-colonial Mexican art, as I investigate the complicated formation of the modern-day Mexican identity, and its complications when such intermingled identities are transplanted to the United States.