Moisés

My twin sister and I were not allowed to see the dead body of our father. I never knew if it was because he committed suicide or because of Jewish religious beliefs or both.

Not seeing him has made us doubt his death in many ways. The feeling that everything was a nightmare and the fantasy we both have that we are going to find him walking in the street or sitting in a cafe has accompanied us all these years.

I once read that fiction´s primary task is to favor evolution, forcing us to acknowledge and become the otherness around us. I think fiction can help us depict the endless reservoir of the unconscious, allowing us to represent our desires and fantasies.

Moisés is a typology of portraits of men in their 70´s, the age that my father would be today if he were alive.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976. Studied the Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea 2011 at the Centro de la Imagen. Her work has been featured in group shows in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Guatemala, Spain and Ireland. She has received numerous awards including the Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña prize in 2014, the first prize at the VI Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales de Yucatán 2013, the Programa de Residencias Artísticas del Fonca-Conacyt grant in Buenos Aires (2013), an honorable mention at the Selección Oficial Artemergente Bienal Nacional de Monterrey 2012 and an honorable mention at the Concurso de Fotografía Contemporánea de México. Her work was also featured in the Discoveries of the Meeting Place of FotoFest 2014. Her photographs have appeared in online publications such as LAT Photo Magazine, PICNIC magazine, Zonezero, PDN‑Pulse, and others. Her work is in the collection of the Instituto de Cultura de Yucatán and of Joaquim Paiva.

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