Don Jose with a lamb's jaw, 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 52 x 87 cm.
Laborers' shelter, 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 52 x 87 cm.
El Petacal mount, playground and Monsanto, 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 52 x 87 cm.
Pitaya in Monsanto, 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 52 x 87 cm.
Laborers' boots, 2017. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 52 x 87 cm.
Mipla in nylon, 2017. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 52 x 87 cm.
Laborers' uniforms, 2017. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 52 x 87 cm.
Hat and sickle, 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 34 x 52 cm.
Stake, 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 34 x 52 cm.
Bonfire, 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 34 x 52 cm.
El Muñeco (The doll), 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 34 x 52 cm.
Mesoamerican clay shards, 2016. Digital photograph, inkjet print. 34 x 52 cm.
They Have Given Us The Land
In the fields of Mexico the traditional “milpa”, a multicrop of corn and other vegetables, is now being substituted for monocrops of GMO, creating a strong tension. This series is based in Ejido San Isidro, in Jalisco, a valley that inspired Juan Rulfo to write the famous short stories book called The Plain in Flames, a book about rural life and the conflicts of land after the Revolution. The series depicts the space in conflict between the farmers of the zone, in a fight against illegal occupation of their lands by transnational enterprises, agro-industries that little by little are suffocating the fields and the laborers.
This brutal encounter has created restricted hipertecnified lands: areas of crops spread with agrochemicals so toxic they burn the human skin when touched, but nonetheless are used for cultivating food. In this place diverse forces are faced, a moment of change between a traditional practice and the biotechnological production which consequences appear to be irreversible.
This series was awarded the acquisition prize in the XVIII Photography Biennial at Centro de la Imagen in December 2018.