Artist Statement
The act of remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. The more we recall an event the more we are likely to change it with time.
Departing from this thought, I began to question the role of photography and its relationship to memory, specifically what it intends to preserve.
In this project I revisit events from my youth that where never recorded, I re-stage scenarios taken from my memory and with the collaboration of my immediate family I recreate these memories.
I graduated in 2005 from the SVA in NYC. That same year, I was invited to be an artist-in-residence at the Fondazione Ratti's Intense Visual Arts program with artist Alfredo Jaar, in Como, Italy. The following year, I moved to South America and developed a body of work that granted me a residency at the Danish School of Journalism in Denmark for 2007. In 2009/10' I had a group show at the United Nations, and the Queens Museum, in 2011 I was invited to participate in a artist residency in Niort, France and exhibited at the Rencontres Des Arts in Arles. In the summer of 2012 I am invited to Taos, NM, for a residency, and I will also have my second solo show in Portland, Oregon.
Since 06’ I have been working on projects that deal with identity and intimacy, I have been collaborating with native communities and my relatives as subjects for various photo-based projects. I have worked with the Mam (an indigenous group close to the border with Mexico) in Guatemala, with the Mandaeans (an ethnic group in the south of Iraq and west of Iran) living in Sweden, and with the Waoranis in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and lately in the Andean Mountains. Through the experiences of living and working with indigenous and/or minorities, my current work deals with personal journeys and heritage one that I invite the viewers to travel in to.
My work has been awarded the New Works Photography by EnFoco, the Urban Artist Initiative by the Bronx Council for the Arts, the Individual Artist Initiative by the Queens Council for the Arts, FotoFest’s Biennial portfolio scholarship by request of Ann Tucker, the NYFA Fellowship, and recently is part of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts Photography Collection.
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