About

My practice explores the malleability of language and representation, specially as a response to institutional authority and dominant social narratives. In it, I deconstruct the sources and effects of authority at both bureaucratic and experiential levels, thinking about the processes through which power is exerted; as well as, the body as a site where it can be sensed and embodied. My relationship to authority has always manifested in my physical being. When I was younger, adults would become frustrated at my inability to have serious conversations without crying. However annoying it was for them, it was much more to me. This type of crying wasn’t the type of weeping that occurs out of sadness or even frustration, it was completely physical, as involuntary as a sneeze. After many years the feeling lingers, complete and profound pressure, like squeezing a balloon with water inside, leaving an untrained body with no response for it other than tears. My awareness of this phenomenon inspires my work’s investigation on how authority is exerted and how people manage to survive or manipulate oppressive forces. To this end, I use the visual language of multiplicity, seriality, and fragmentation, to engage viewers with the contradictions and breakages in reality that come about from the manipulation of culture and the fragility of a shared social language. Highlighting the elusive and fluid character of power, my work encourages viewers to look up, down, to the side, moving their focus across various focal points.

Through this exploration, my work found a home in photography and film, mediums that have transformed audience’s relationship to representation, evidence, and authenticity. Challenging the mimetic abilities of the camera, my work encourages audiences to consider the materiality of the image and question its legibility. By breaking polaroids, introducing foreign materials to the enlarger, using thread to create compositions, I emphasize the image as an object that embraces spillage, contradiction, and confusion as a productive tool for looking and examining spaces where power is exerted, from tech monopolies to institutions in Western academia.