Najhmi Cartagena

Photographer

Bio

Najhmi Cartagena (b. 1995, Acapulco) is a visual artist with a background in industrial design. Grief guides her work, weaving family archive, painting, and writing to explore memory and loss.

Nationality

Mexican

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As Far as You Love Me

As Far As You Love Me

Assembling digitized VHS and family media, I create an intimate dialogue on life, death, and grief. This audiovisual work transforms my archive into a space to resignify the absence and passing of my mother, Vero.

Project by Najhmi Cartagena
Objects of ELA

Objects Of ELA

Medical objects stand as silent protagonists of my mother’s phases of ALS journey. This series traces the intersection of grief and faith through a clinical lens, making visible the caregiver’s profound, unseen labor.

Project by Najhmi Cartagena
The art of losing (el arte de perder)

The Art Of Losing (el Arte De Perder)

A profound journey through ALS and grief, weaving family photos, medical records, emails, and diary fragments. Four years of love, loss, and memory unfold as a daughter honors her mother Vero, exploring death, absence, healing, remembrance, and solitude.

Project by Najhmi Cartagena