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I grew up in Havana, Cuba where everything– from old cars to plastic bags– is reconstituted and repurposed. In this way, my practice is shaped by the collection and veneration of objects, images, and stories that have been abandoned or overlooked. I am primarily concerned with archival absences and with turning over two fundamental questions: how do we let the silences of history and memory speak? And if they could develop this power, what would they say?
Weaving photography, film, and performance, I posit how relationships– to ourselves, to each other, and to our ancestors, more than human beings, the land and the built environment– are inherently political, and therefore our most potent tool for resistance and recovery.
My role in this world is as a trickster. I’m particularly compelled by the “tricky” potential of speculative archives because of their ability to upend our belief in dominant narratives. I use staging, reenactment, and play as a ritual where we can reimagine our relationship to the past, and rehearse new ways of being with each other. I then document these experiments using photography and film. These traces offer new ways of understanding history on both personal and collective scales.
I want my work to stoke the inner-child desire to believe, for fantasy to be a place of rapture, which can get us closer to deeper emotional truths, and compel us to build the playful and rebellious worlds we can imagine.