The house that bleeds

Guerrero is one of the states in Mexico that has been most affected by the violence of organized crime. Last year three of my in-laws died. After these events I began documenting my family and tried to capture the psychological and emotional breakdown caused by the loss of a family member (for parents, children, and siblings). And so I worked with the concepts of pain, emptiness, absence and forgetting. I try to find social and cultural cues that can allow me to create a personal account of the issues that families face when dealing with an unexpected death. Through the account and this particular case, I wanted to talk about one's relationship with intimate space, where the personal is social. I was thus trying to depict the situation in which many families in this region live, and the unraveling of Mexico's social fabric.

Taxco, 1984. Studied the Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea 2010 at the Centro de la Imagen, and participated in many photography workshops in Oaxaca. His work has been featured in group shows in Mexico, Chile and the United States. He has had solo shows at the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo and the Galería Ixcateopan of the Centro Cultural Acapulco. He has received the Fonca's Jóvenes Creadores grant (2011-12), the Programa de Formación Fotoensayo grant (2010-11), and a grant from the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico de Guerrero (2008). He was awarded second prize at the Concurso de Fotografía Contemporánea de México 2012, and the purchase prize at the XXXIV Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven 2014. His work is in the collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Aguascalientes, the Fototeca Nacional (INAH) and the Secretaría de Cultura de Guerrero. He is currently a recipient of the Fonca's Jóvenes Creadores grant (2013-14).

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