RELATED ARTWORKS

2005-2016

VIS continues the exploration on which I have been working and in which I have addressed specific social issues from 2006 to the present: the Mexican diaspora in the US [2487 and riverbank], the normalization of violence in the Mexican media [detritus], the exacerbated violence on the US-Mexico border [Police Radio Frequencies], and recently the micro-audio landscapes of the civil society who live immersed in violence [V. (u)nf_1].

2005-2013

Police Radio Frequencies

This sound installation captures the swelling aggression on the US-Mexico border region. Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas is a border city opposite its twin Laredo, in Texas. They are divided by the Rio Grande. The focal point of the sound installation records the communication between the police force in Nuevo Laredo and the police quarters. The main sound object is a recording provided by Mexican journalists from El Mañana de Nuevo Laredo newspaper.

2006

2487

Multi-channel sound installation. This sound piece records the names of 2,487 of the estimated eight thousand people who died while trying to cross the US/Mexico border since 1993.

2011-2013

detritus

detritus explores the way violence is portrayed through news media in Mexico. The excessive amounts of images of violence that are put into circulation by media, permeate into the everyday life and build the “texture of violence” we live in.

Research for the visual components of detritus included every online edition of two national Mexican newspapers between the dates December 11, 2006 until November 30, 2012. Research was completed at the end of 2013 with a total of 15,585 data entries and their corresponding images.

Exploring the ‘normalization’ of violence through media is not the only motivation with detritus, also is to show the images that construct the landscape of Mexico; tell the story of a failed nation, amplifying the fact that we are confronting the failure of the Mexican state, as we used to know it.