La casa que sangra II Broken Roots.
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Dates2023 - Ongoing
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Author
- Location Guerrero, Mexico
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Recognition
“A people without memory is condemned to repeat their mistakes.”
Guerrero is one of the Mexican States that have been most affected by organized
crime; It is the second poorest and most violent state in the country. The condition
of social and economic marginalization of Guerrero is becoming more evident. The
crisis of the rule of law is increasingly alarming and forced disappearances are only
one of the symptoms that prove it. In 2013, three of my brothers-in-law died. (They
used to live in Iguala, the place from where the Ayotzinapa students disappeared).
One of them was killed; the other two disappeared.) After these events I began
documenting my family, and the families of other missing people, in order to capture in photographs the psychological and emotional breakdown caused by the loss of family members, especially for parents, children, and siblings. I am working with the concepts of pain, emptiness, absence, and forgetting.
I’m seeking social and cultural clues that can allow me to create a personal
account of the issues that families face when dealing with an unexpected death.
Through the testimony and this particular issue, I want to show the relationship of
intimate space to personal life experience, which is reflected in the social
experience.
I am thus trying to depict the situation which many families in this region face,
which they live through daily, and which is one of the causes of the unraveling of
Mexico's social fabric.