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Artist Statement

As an animator, I believe the motion  of the world will never be captured in a snapshot. Instead it must be seen as a smear of continuous motion from the past to our very present moment. Because of this, art interests me as a certain type of paleontology: a process of digging through experiences and contextualizing moments within the ongoing narrative of history. Official accounts of historical events strive for objectivity but this approach leaves out internal personal experiences and poorly records cultural transformation. The development of identity, individual or collective, requires subjective processes of self-reflection. Personal experiences of violence and civil unrest in my home country of México also encouraged my interest in unveiling forces behind changing dynamics in contemporary society. 

My art reveals subjectivity in narratives which present themselves as objective. By mediating them through obviously fabricated and subjective means, such as traditional hand-drawn animation, I decode them into sensorial (and thus deeply subjective) experiences. By understanding my work as an investigative procedure, I collect pieces of human interaction not in an effort to capture them, but to give them living form and space.