A casual discovery of old slides with images taken in different countries from the Caribbean and South America triggered questions, memories, documentation, and the construction of different narratives around a common Cold War politics that affected Latin America and its inhabitants with similar results and lasting consequences.
These collages are part of the first video, about Puerto Rico.

Collaboration for the III Encuentro de Artistas Madres

Colaboration for the fanzine Mala Leche / Chispa Edition.

I’ve been working slowly on these collages, based on photos I’ve been taking during the transition from summer to autumn in the city. Here, the autumn light has a quality that still surprises and fascinates me.

I’ve kept the process of writing, like a diary, documenting how I’m feeling and basic things I’ve done. If I don’t do it, I completely lose track of my existence.

The name of this series is “The Contusion” because it’s related to the fundamental questions of existence, the ones characters in soap operas always ask themselves once they regain consciousness after a blow: “Who am I? Where am I?”

Astronaut Mom” started as a game between my kids and me during the worst and most isolating part of the COVID pandemic. My older son and I took a serie of photographs using a toy astronaut helmet. Eventually, these games formed a collection of poorly focused, low-resolution, and crazy images, which became a way of poetic resistance, helping me to reframe the most difficult moments of my life as a mother. Through these pictures, I could reflect and begin a path to healing traumatic experiences related to obstetric violence, postpartum depression, and lonely, isolated maternity. Simultaneously, I could connect with the experiences of other moms and open the narrative.

<<Mamá Astronauta__Digital Collages>>

<<Mamá Astronauta__ Video Digital Collages>>

<<Astronaut Mom__Landing>>
Digital Video

Astronaut Mom__Landing is the final chapter of the visual and collaborative investigation that concludes the “Astronaut Mom” series. Upon arriving in the USA, the artist sought to connect her own personal experiences of motherhood as a South American/Latin American woman with the subjective narratives of three local mothers who were part of a shared space for moms and kids during the New City Arts Gallery Fellowship. The outcome is a video that highlights the primary challenges of motherhood in a shared patriarchal context.

<<We will carry our guilts together>>

Participative Instalation
Baby carrier from the Chilean government
Ribbons with mother guilt write down.

<<To be a mom in the patriarchy>>

Concepts wall.
Printed paper and masking tape. Variable dimensions

<<Executing landing process (how to be a mother in the land of the free)>>

Live Performance/ 15 minutes /2022

Also, working deeply submerged in the motherhood, this images start to build my next project.