cartography of courage
2017 - 2025
This series addresses the transformations that arose from three experiences: motherhood, migration and gender transition. I approach these biographical territories in shadow, storm and movement, reflecting personal processes and their context, in an intimate and poetic way. I ventured in various artistic languages, highlighting three main thematic lines: drawing, body and transformation. Through them, I reflect visually on identity, change and resistance.
Each project is an exercise of inherited knowledge and personal learning, approaching them from intuition and the body. The series integrates artistic practice, spirituality and magic, considering them sister forces that reorganize the symbolic universe. All of them are tools to face personal and collective crises.
what to do if someone you love is trans?
2022: fanzine
I worked in an IKEA brochure to build instructions on how to react to the news that someone you love is trans. This fanzine is, among other things, a pedagogical tool to talk and learn about life experiences that push us to borderline territories of human existence, and to reflect on how we respond to transformations in others and our own.
The trans fanzine has had three reprints, can be bought for €5 and if you are a trans person or a family member of one, I will give it to you as a gift in recognition of your journey together. You can see its audiovisual version thanks to hysteria revista.
The trans fanzine has had three reprints, can be bought for €5 and if you are a trans person or a family member of one, I will give it to you as a gift in recognition of your journey together. You can see its audiovisual version thanks to hysteria revista.
the book of night
2017 - 2025: diary of pregnancy
Intervened catalogue that rewrites a dreamlike constellation around the first years of motherhood. The original catalog is Fordlandia’s project by the mexican-british artist Melanie Smith.
domestic witnesses
2020: eye of the hurricane record
During the COVID19 lockdown, there was a period of apparent calm, a state similar to the phenomenon called the eye of the hurricane. Without being able to leave home for months, I create small domestic and everyday witnesses to the passage of time. In the wait, I opened a round and small silence. I created mediumistic objects or toys, ritual spaces raise a family, as a matter of political and joyous resistance.
flesh of the wind
2019: some day I will paint again
It begins with the action of gathering tree branches and making a collection of brushes with my hair. With organic matter I made eleven drawings. These actions and the resulting installation conjure up the recovery of my body after the first years of motherhood and address processes linked to the feminine, to the intimate and dark space of motherhood.
shreds
2019: love divination tool
Cards that bring together knowledge from the complex process we went through during my partner's gender transition and the birth of our daughter. For years I collected phrases from fortune cookies given out in Asian restaurants; I added some of my own reflections and phrases from the artist Lía García. This playful divination tool forms an intimate and loving story about my family.
catrinas
2019: watercolor
Women who cover their faces, wear makeup or disguise themselves have been a constant in my work, and through their representation I connect with the strength, resilience and transformations we face throughout our lives. Today, Catrinas are part of the cultural imagination, and not only in Mexico.
For those of you who don't know, the catrina emerged in the 19th century, created by the engraver José Guadalupe Posada, and was taken up in the mural “Dream of a Sunday in the Alameda” by Diego Rivera in the mid-20th century.
For those of you who don't know, the catrina emerged in the 19th century, created by the engraver José Guadalupe Posada, and was taken up in the mural “Dream of a Sunday in the Alameda” by Diego Rivera in the mid-20th century.