| Statement
Originally from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, I’ve lived in the United States since the age of fourteen. I was born with severe symbrachydactyly of the left hand. As a child I learned to use my hands differently than most people and from that particular experience, the individual’s capacity for coping and make do are concepts I am interested in exploring in many of my works through makeshift aesthetics.
My research-based (sometimes nomadic) practice exists at the crossroads of installation, video, animation and photography. Within this multidisciplinary approach, I often incorporate elements of sound, drawing, painting and interactivity to address issues related to migration, displacement, trauma, alienation, the media and the effects of violence on the central American individual and society.
In my work, personal and collective stories intertwine to create narratives that posit the individual’s vulnerability within institutional and social hierarchies. In some of my site-specific projects I forge a dynamic that engages the space’s history to reveal specific human rights issues. My video work, which often incorporates found footage or text, explores surveillance, online culture, coded language, the concept of the “other” and the effects of mass media on the individual’s perception of reality.
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From Celdas (Prison Cells), Celda #16
2014
Installation into Photography,
C-print
34” x 34”
(work completed at Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL. This work is informed by a school massacre in my native San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
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From Celdas (Prison Cells), Celda #17
2015
Installation into Photography,
C-print
34” x 34”
(work completed at Southern Illinois University, Cinema and Photography Department. The work presents photos of murdered sex workers including mural of crime site) |
From Celdas (Prison Cells), Celda #18
2018
Installation into Photography,
C-print,
34” x 34”
(work completed at Vermont Studio Center, VT. The work includes embroidery of a child victim of violence, native Miami, FL plants and a painting of the actual crime site)
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Object of my affection (Installation view part of the exhibition titled Object of my affection: San Pedro nos ve (watches over us),
2015
interactive mixed-media site-specific installation, which includes website, Dimensions variable, (Work installed at The Museum of Art and Design in Miami, FL, formerly a processing center for Cuban refugees)
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Object of my affection (detail)
2015
phone scan of an 11 year old boy murdered over gang territory wars in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
individual piece: 8.5” x 11” |
Survival map for the outsider (Mapa de supervivencia para el forastero)
animation still, Animation with sound
2015
Dur: 03;55
This map is a recontextualization of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, using available data/ part of the exhibit Object of my affection: San Pedro nos ve (watches over us)
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Virtual Wall (Muro Virtual)
installation view
Animation
2017
Dur: 08;04
(Installation view at MoCA, North Miami, FL) |
Virtual Wall (Muro Virtual)
Animation still
2017
Dur: 08;04
(Found social media text) |
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