I'm a Mexican woman, part of the 2SLGBTQ+ comunity. I create art from a place of self identification and respect toward my environment. I love to express my deepest concerns and desires through art. I do it with different media such as installation, performance, sculpture and wearable art. I do it with the motivation to create a more conscious and diverse point of view with which people are able to exercise empathy and further understand social responsibility. I enjoy mixing different techniques and mediums, while I experiment and document my process, because that is where I learn the most.
¿Por que no todos puden pasar? (Why can't we all go through?)
Embroidery on different textiles, wood sticks, 12" × 10" × 12" , 2024
When I was young, growing up in Mexico City, I used to hear stories about people dying and going through the impossible to cross the Mexico-American border for a chance to find better opportunities. With my piece, I wanted to talk about borders and question the power dynamics they create as it lets some people cross and move freely while others are criminalized and abused for doing the same. As immigrants its is already hard to adjust to a place you didn't grow up in, to assimilate while you are still trying to keep your culture close to your heart, but it is unfair that on top of that, some immigrants have to face abuse, insecurity, explotation and persecution just because they didn't have the resources or knowledge to cross 'the right way'. I explore these thoughts on my piece through a representation of fear (the eye that cannot see clearly), privilege (a clean bottle of water that reflects light), and how their relation affects migration (the thread going through the wall). They all interconnect in the middle of the piece, where a wall stands but cannot serve its purpose as it is being crossed and does not go across the whole piece. I wish to transmit that with more awareness, knowledge, and compassion, there could be more understanding and support for immigrants from all places and all backgrounds.
