Edmundo

  • Dates
    2019 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Portrait
  • Locations Mexico City, Mexico

This series explores the impulse of the creative act through the story of my uncle who was diagnosed with schizophrenia when young.

After spending time with my uncle Edmundo I came across the electronic devices that he repurposed. I immediately identified myself with his need to express creatively. As an artist I connected with his need to interfere with reality via creativity. Schizophrenia forced my uncle to interrupt his studies when he was a teenager. Since he has has been confined to his bedroom.

This world that I share with my uncle came up thanks to a relationship based on freedom and playtime, one that resists a context of judgement. I want to celebrate my uncle's creative capacity.

My interest is to expand the image under which someone like my uncle is represented. The mise-en-scene images, the built objects and my interventions, by weaving wires and objects to the prints, are my attempt to open a dialogue that concerns what I consider to be a limited visual vocabulary when telling stories related to mental health. In the case of my uncle's story I want people to see him beyond his mental health issues. I want people to see him as I do, as someone full with potential and brilliant ideas.

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