About

I am a mexican artist based in Norway, with education from Facultad de Artes y Diseño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2008-2013), and Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (2019-2021). I like building things, the smell of ink, and peeking behind the curtains of reality. I love music too.

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My artistic practice is about asking questions, exploring possibilities and following uncharted directions.

 

My work centers on graphic processes and their relation with our present. I think of Print as a medium that engages actively and critically with our reality through concepts such as reproduction and seriality. These have always been a part of Print's origin and historical development. Since the appearance of early woodcuts and letterpress prints, the possibility to create and replicate image and text has been a cornerstone of culture, shaping our interaction with information. 

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I am intrigued by the transformations technology generates within communication and visual culture. My recent work is an experimental approach to Print centered on sculpture, performance, and installation. Traditional Print techniques and processes are adapted and transformed by my personal perspectives. Rather than producing prints as finished artistic pieces, I have become increasingly interested in the process, structures and systems that configure image-making and my own work.

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I work with the production of images within printed media at the intersection between analogue and digital, from the basis of traditional processes and craft. I investigate the systems and mechanisms that generate visual information, such as the pixel from the digital image (which I work through multiple-plate aquatints) and the halftone dot in relief printing (which I reinterpret using printable wooden sculptures with different structures of information carved on their surface).

 

My latest work has orbited The Machine. I designed and built The Machine from scratch. It is a wooden press that interacts with my previous projects and reconfigures them: I can install my Wooden Rollers to generate large-scale prints, turning them into living sculptures activated through their use. Through The Machine, the printmaking workshop activity, normally anonymous and invisible, is put in the spotlight as action, performance, and installation, potentially transforming our engagement with images through their materiality and production. The Machine has the capacity to become a symbolic element: at the same an object that links image-making to bygone times, yet revolutionary in that it increases the importance of process and craft within contemporary print and visual culture.