𝙵𝚘𝚝𝚘 𝙰𝚕𝚋𝚞𝚖

—“Ritual is survival. Memory is resistance”.

Foto Album (2012)

Medium: Photography / Mixed Media / Poetry
Themes: Memory, Spiritual Resilience, Violence
Status: Completed – Awaiting Exhibition in Den Haag (alongside Espinas)

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How to evoke the sordid without propagating its disease? Mexico is a country forged in collision—where conquest and resistance shaped not just history, but the very fabric of identity. La Guerra contra el Narco looms large—an unwinnable war declared in 2006, leaving nearly 400,000 dead and over 60,000 missing. A faceless catastrophe, where victims blur into statistics, where the violence is too vast to frame in a single image.

In this series, I explore Mexico’s most enduring contemporary struggles—tests of resilience and testaments of resistance. Ritual and surrealist traditions become a shield against violence. With the same alchemical elegance, I have chosen photography and poetry—mediums that render the message almost imperceptible, yet, in their beauty, even more powerful. An act of defiance. A way to reclaim power.

Balloon, Cage, Gravity
The impossibility of flight.
Sad little girl, little bird, little boy…
Dreaming—floating—falling.

Violence in Mexico does not discriminate—it begins in childhood, shaping the way grief is inherited. The cage, the balloon, the weight of gravity—the metaphors repeat themselves across generations, in different forms, in different faces.

The ofrenda, the personal shrine, is no longer reserved for Día de los Muertos—it has become a permanent fixture in households, a silent monument to the missing and the murdered.

How many mothers created altars like this, missing a tomb? How many children grow up knowing their fathers through stories told in contained tears?

Absence,
it is grief, behind the glass,
her boy's name carved in stone.

She embraces him now
—with her eyes.

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🜂 𝙳𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢 ＬＯＶＥ

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