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Tell us what you do and your beginnings.
I’m a visual artist born and raised in Mexico City (1980). I did a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at the National School of Arts (UNAM) and then a master’s degree at the University of the Arts, Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin) under the mentorship of German artist Rebecca Horn.
This experience in Berlin was a crucial departing point for my artistic research, it was the time when I truly started doing interdisciplinary projects: mixing not only media but also different subjects and interests from diverse sources of information and working with collaborators from various fields.
Since childhood, art has been a space where I explore my desires, dreams, and research about life; I can mix all my interests: Biology, Ecology, History, Literature, Politics, Social sciences, and Aesthetics.
What does your work aim to say?
I wouldn’t say there’s a sole message that I would like to convey with my art since it is always shifting, but there’s a constant pursuit of looking for a universal language through the conceptual and aesthetic experiences that my works present.
I always seek to address primal emotions, shared by us all as humans, regardless of nationalities or passports, trying to use the power and strength of an aesthetic experience to affect first the body and emotions of a spectator, to convey the messages of the artworks more strongly and deeply.
I believe that the affective force of art is one of its most profound, powerful, and even subversive qualities. Finding that force and communicating it through, video, sound, space, objects or colors is one of my main goals.
Where do you find inspiration for your art?
I find inspiration in life. In the complex, almost invisible connections that bring living forces together in the same geopolitical or temporal space. Finding meanings and connections that I never expected to encounter, fascinates me and result in a very inspiring impulse to do an art project.
I find inspiration while creating and achieving a truly aesthetic experience with my working subjects, sometimes a group of people, sometimes Nature itself…