Mexican artist and architectural designer based in Chicago, USA and Pachuca, Mexico.
His work uses architectural design, writing, video, public programs and performance to address histories of social struggles, racialization and class dynamics in the Americas. He has been a grantee of the New Artists Society of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Jumex Foundation for Contemporary Art and the John W. Kurtich Foundation. For his work on the history of Mexico City’s Modern Sewage System and its relationship with indigenous representation he was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant by the Anti-Racism and Global Architecture History program, an initiative of the Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative of the Department of Architecture at MIT. His work has been shown in venues as the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, the Chicago Design Museum, Extase, SITE Galleries, SpaceP11 and the Centro de Arte y Filosofia. He acts as a creative advisor for the Farnsworth House (Historic Site by the National Trust for Historic Preservation) and coordinates the public programs of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies of the University of Chicago.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Itinerarios Líquidos with Andrea Hunt, curated by Benedetta Casini for BienalSur
Fundación Andreani, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sep 25, 2021
UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS:
The Tactical Gardens: On People for Community Recovery and Bottom Up Subjective Transformation.
For New City’s Chicago Architecture Biennial edition. Chicago, USA. October, 2021.
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Like a Flower We Will Dry Upon the Earth
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In collaboration with Andrea Hunt
Chapter 1: The World Below
A Political History of Mexico City’s Modern Sewage System.
Work funded by the American Institute of Architects and MIT’s Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative.
A version of this work will be shown at Itinerarios Líquidos a BienalSur exhibition curated by Benedetta Casini at Fundación Andreani, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A version of this work will be shown at Itinerarios Líquidos a BienalSur exhibition curated by Benedetta Casini at Fundación Andreani, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The World Below is an experimental documentary that
revises the contingent political history of Mexico City’s
sewage system to further conversations on racism, modernity
and land sovereignity in the Mezquital Valley.
Videoinstallation, 30 mins.
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![Basin-Forum / Las Cajas de Agua de Zumpango. Click Right for more images.]()
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![Monument to the Deep Sewage Worker]()
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![Los Baños de Nezahualcóyotl]()
![Schematics for an Alarm Pavilion on Lumbrera 19 of the Túnel Emisor Oriente, Estado de Hidalgo.]()
![Schematics for an Alarm Pavilion in Lumbrera 10 of Túnel Emisor Oriente. Estado de México]()
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revises the contingent political history of Mexico City’s
sewage system to further conversations on racism, modernity
and land sovereignity in the Mezquital Valley.
Videoinstallation, 30 mins.
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