Statement

I am particularly interested in what remains between the personal and the collective: the images we inherit, family stories, everyday objects, and cultural representations that acquire new meanings over time. Working with these materials, I develop projects that move between documentation and interpretation, between lived experience and imagination.

My artistic practice is situated within the field of contemporary photography and is rooted in a documentary approach that combines research, archives, and visual experimentation. I work with found photographs, family archives, and documentary materials as starting points for exploring how we construct our memory, identity, and perception of the world around us.

The archive occupies a central place in my process. I do not understand it solely as a record of the past, but as a space open to new readings. By bringing photographs from different periods into dialogue with contemporary images, found materials, and graphic elements, I create relationships that can alter, complete, or question what an image appears to tell us.

My projects often emerge from experiences and contexts connected to Mexico and my current place of residence in Germany, as well as from my own experience of living between different places and cultures. I do not seek to represent a fixed identity or offer definitive answers, but rather to observe how identities transform and how certain images can become symbols capable of revealing aspects of both individual and collective experience.

Many birthdays, many births, and also many deaths that I have not witnessed; political and cultural changes that I have experienced from a distance, having lived outside my country for almost 20 years. I have come to realize that all these events I have missed have brought me closer to my family’s photographic archive, turning it into a fundamental part of my inspiration and working material.

Through these photographs, I discover memories and identities that extend beyond my own story. The family archive thus becomes a point of encounter between personal experience and a broader memory of my country. By working with and reinterpreting these images, I construct new visual narratives that allow me to approach what was absent while, at the same time, questioning the ways in which stories are preserved, transmitted, and remembered.

In this space between document, archive, and visual construction, I understand photography as a form of research and, at the same time, as a way of telling stories.