About me
I am a visual artist based on the border between Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and San Diego, USA. My life on the border--always in between--gives me an interest in the ways photography, archives and the visual image participate in the construction of narratives of place, nation and belonging. In my practice, I explore the relations of power/knowledge that shape these narratives.
My current project uses family archives, documentary photographs, maps, and historical documents to situate my settler family historyin relation to Dakota lands inMinnesota. Historic sites, commemorated by monuments and state parks,represent sites of struggle over meaning and mark-making in the land. I use performance documentation of physical actions with my hands and my body to engage with the archive and geographicalplace as sites of invention and negotiation, implicating the artist in the recodification of meaning.
My work involves (re)storying, a process of unlearning and rediscovery of these places that we think we know. Forms like the map, the story, the photograph, the archive and my bodily presence in real geographical spaces give me new orientations that interrupt the sense-making project of settler colonialism and provoke questions about place, history and belonging. In my practice, I explore the ways spaces and places are produced—by political, economic and social forces that are often erased and made invisible to us.
I am currently an MFA Candidate in Art & Design at San Diego State University. I earned a master's degree in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and completed specialized studies in contemporary art and photography in the independent Program of Contemporary Photography (PFC) in Mexico, under the direction of the late Javier Ramírez Limón. I have exhibited my photographs and videos in Mexico and Latin America, the United States and Europe. I have lived inTijuana, Baja California, Mexico since 2011.
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