Family Album

In this work, I explore photography as an active space for self-narration and reconfiguration of history.

In this work, I explore photography as an active space for self-narration and reconfiguration of history.  

Continuing my study on the Latin American portrait, but this time from a very personal stance, I examine the mutability of archival images, the ongoing presence of history in the present day, and the connection between people and material life. 

Composing in layers, I superpose family pictures and images from a zoographical album from my childhood, along with collected fabrics and other surfaces from my personal archive. 

Each new composition is a reclamation of my personal history. A disruption of the postures of power, and a personal but important attempt to recenter the terms of a photographic discourse to this day heavily stained by inequality.

-These compositions are silent moments of healing that bring the attention back into the material. Each weaving is constructed by hand, thus revealing my body’s presence, which is marked by the unavoidable traces of my labor. My work is particularly driven by my admiration for female labor. It is inspired by my mom and my two grandmothers, who used weaving and work with textiles as forms of survival, but also as ways of creative expression.