PROPUESTA ARTÍSTICA ARTISTIC STATEMENT

Trabajo en el Sur Global*, en contextos de tensión política y social, territorios urbanos y rurales en disputa que continúan hablando desde los vestigios; desde un tiempo suspendido. A partir de una etnografía sensorial que se expresa en forma de ensayo visual. Investigaciones artísticas que utilizan las herramientas del urbanismo, la arqueología y la antropología. Exploraciones que derivan en filmes expandidos, instalaciones, fotografías, archivo y libros.

Formulo sistemas de conocimiento bajo una narrativa fragmentaria, mediante la conjunción de espacio, imagen y sonido. Los dispositivos que elaboro son a su vez soporte y medio para la expansión de una diversidad de gestos que remiten a las formas humanas de producción y trabajo, la economía informal, la vida a la intemperie, el despojo y el desplazamiento. A través de los proyectos rindo homenaje a las economías frágiles, a las habilidades para reciclar, ampliar y reparar un universo objetual que usualmente se identifica con el desecho; a los movimientos de desterritorialización; a la resistencia al desalojo y al ingenio en relación a las soluciones informales de supervivencia.

En los últimos años he desarrollado diferentes proyectos en localidades de México, Colombia y Cuba.

I work in the Global South* in contexts of political and social tension, in urban and rural disputed territories that keep on talking of human coexisting dynamics from the remains; from a suspended time. Grounded on a sensorial ethnography expressed in the form of visual essay. A research practice that resorts to the tools of urbanism, archeology, and anthropology. Explorations that derive in expanded films, installations, photography, archives, and books.

I formulate knowledge systems under a fragmentary narrative, through the conjunction of space, image, and sound. The devices that I develop are, in turn, support and means for the expansion of a diversity of gestures that refer to the human forms of production and labor, informal economy, living unsheltered, dispossession, and displacement. Through the projects I pay homage to the fragile economies; to the ability to recycle, expand, and repair an objectual universe that is usually associated with waste; to the movements of deterritorialization; to the resistance to eviction; and the inventiveness of informal housing solutions.

In the last few years, I have developed projects in Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba.

AGENDA

July, 2021

7th - Conversatory "Architecture without Architects". Seminario Permanente de Investigación Artística - SPIA

June, 2021

24th - Workshop Anarchitectures. ALEPH, Art and Science Festival, UNAM

20th - Book presentation: "Architecture without Architects". Ed. Arquine

17th - Book presentation: "Architecture without Architects". ALEPH, Art and Science Festival, UNAM

May - November, 2021

From 22nd May to 21st November - "Displacements" (Desplazamientos). Mexican Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

May 2021

Book publication: "Architecture without Architects". Ed. Arquine.

6th - Talk with Sandra Calvo. Radio IBERO

6th - Talk with Sandra Calvo. Aire Libre Radio Station

April, 2021

19th - Talk with Sandra Calvo. La hora Arquine

7th - Talk with Sandra Calvo. Latente, Radio Ensayo

March, 2021

26th - "House Taken Over" (Ocupar, Habitar, Resistir). Seminar Grado Cero. Programa Arte, Ciencia y Tecnologías (ACT). Astronomy Institute, C.U. Mexico

November - December, 2020

Artistic Research Advisory. SOMA

November, 2020

Jury at the Fondo Municipal para Artistas y Creadores. Instituto de Cultura del Municipio de Chihuahua

May, 2020

22nd - Zoom conference. Seminar "Between field and field: art + agroecology". Programa Arte, Ciencia y Tecnologías (ACT)

March 2020

6th - Talk at the Faculty of Architecture. UNAM.

February 2020

6th - 9th - QiPO Fair 02, Mexico City.

6th - Research group for the activation of Plaza Bicentenario, Tlaxcala

January 2020

24th - Postgraduate workshop. "Espacio efímero". Arquine.

16th . Talk at Arquine’s Jam sessions No. 22 : "Toda arquitectura es efímera"

March 2019

Collective exhibition. "No me cansaré". Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. MUAC, Mexico City.

December 2019

Photography Biennial. "Abandonment Copies", Centro de la Imagen. Mexico City.

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