Projects
Projects
Collaborative and individual artistic work, video production, art direction, sculpture , set design, educational workshops.
“Faded Memory”
Sensorial table - video installation, 10min acrylic table 1,60 x 1,00, cotton tablecloth, mesoamerican kitchen utensils, SAVVY Berlin 2024.
For the ‘Common Soil’ exhibition, I explored two questions related to the history and consumption of cocoa: Cocoa as ritual? or food as a memory?
The exploration of space, as captured in the “Faded memory”, represents the initial foray into investigating the intricate connection between the histories of agricultural products and the factories in Europe concern in the process of child slavery , companies engaged in the extraction of these products, inadvertently becoming catalysts for deforestation.
This, in turn, gives rise to a host of socio-economic, cultural, and health challenges, transforming certain nations into what might be aptly termed ‘Ecological ruins’ in the not too distant future.
“Blow my wounds like you blow dandelion’s”
Floating University Learn-scapes and Raumstrategien KH, Berlin 2024.
How can we learn from other forms of existence and cohabitation and explore parasitic ways of creation? We usually understand parasitic relationships as a binary distinction between two separate entities: host and parasite. How can we expand our notions and create artworks inspired by broader, beyond binary, ecological and communal contexts in which host-parasite relationships survive and thrive?
The figure of the parasite offers artists a means of surveying, articulating, questioning and contaminating relationships, a tool for identifying gaps, interdependencies, differences and positions within affective relationships. Through this observation and redistribution of component logics and positions within systems, the parasite becomes an expert in the patterns of its host and can then subvert and redirect them.
Our interest in parasites is in how they negotiate their surroundings and how their presence provokes responses – how certain implicated bases can become productive for change; how certain infiltrations by those routinely excluded can disrupt the status quo. Parasitism allows us also to talk about hosting and hospitality, about symbiosis and mutualism, about queer entanglements and adaptivity, about collective perspectives and envisioning spatial strategies through the eyes of the others.
The aim is to explore the concept of parasitism and hosting through various learning sessions and the creation of spatial and ephemeral artistic interventions on the site of the Floating University during the summer semester of 2024, working site-specifically and in dialogue with the existing programme of the Floating University.
Workshops
The MODOPACTUA collective, Mexico City is an education platform in textile design creating short programs that involve textile techniques hand in hand with a continuous exploration of environmental problems and their relationship with society.
In this way we impart theoretical and practical workshops of up-cycling (regeneration and reuse of objects and materials for their use) workshops of weaving, printing of confection and experimentation. Always accompanied by reflection and discussion around the material and its impact on social, environmental, economic, advances in technology, applications for design, etc..
Modopactua / Cutura
Project born in Mexico City. Over time, the project will be reconfigured to become a platform for dissemination, research and experimentation. Modopactua works with materials trying to transform them in a sustainable way.
The intrinsic relationship that exists between the designer, the textile, society, fashion and the environment is the object of analysis of the collective that seeks to generate proposals according to the panorama of Mexico, understanding that it is the best way to propose solutions is from the understanding of the locality.
