My work focuses on exploring the memory of my blood. I’m the daughter of a mestizo father and a Nahua mother (an Indigenous culture in Mexico). My interests delve into the study of identity, territory, pain, rituality, and the relationship with nature within my personal history.

My work goes back and forth between documentary photography and constructed imagery, creating tension between reality and metaphor, much like in memories or dreams. To address these symbolic aspects, I rely on both writing and oral storytelling. I believe editorial work in Mexico remains mostly controlled by highly privileged circles, which determine what information is deemed valuable enough to be published in a book. If knowledge doesn’t serve for political, economic, or class purposes, it survives orally, fading in breath. Echoing this, I use blurred edges and mist to speak about the right to memory. I emulate this by fogging my camera lens with my breath, producing unexpected and unrepeatable results that also reflect a pulse of mine.

The night, as a time filled with blind spots where the hidden prevails and social norms are transgressed, is a recurring concern in my gaze. I am drawn to the visceral aspects of human existence. Darkness, my color palette, and light accents in my work also have aesthetic roots. My grandparents were sacred singers who spoke Nahuatl but sang in Latin. This syncretism in my family is evident in my work, in the themes I address, and in the chiaroscuro influenced by the old oil paintings darkened by time, that I grew up seeing in baroque churches. Mexican art is often expected to conform to a colorful canon. My work seeks to challenge this stereotype, by suggesting that there is no single way to be Mexican but many.

Currently, by offering workshops, lectures, and exhibiting my photographs in schools and cultural centers in rural areas of Tlaxcala, I strive for my work to live in the spaces and among the people who shaped my worldview. Decentralizing art and bringing photography to spaces without specialized schools, nor museums, or galleries is an ethical pillar for me. I believe it’s urgent for younger generations in rural regions to rethink representation systems rather than perpetuating the methodologies used by foreign photographers seeking folkloric bodies.

I studied for a BA Degree in Craft Design (2013–2017) at the University of Guadalajara, with additional study residencies in Art History and Social Anthropology (2018). In 2020, I completed the International Diploma in Cultural Heritage at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). In 2022, I graduated from the Photography Production Seminar at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City and was awarded the Young Creators Grant by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA). In 2023, I was nominated for the Ones to Watch by the British Journal of Photography. In 2024, I was a finalist for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and was selected to participate in the exhibition of the 9th edition of the PhotoVogue Festival in Milan. My work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad.