statement

The psychological context of my characters is the central axis in my work; making an exploration into spaces within the human soul which in general we are not willing to see: the slavery that women and men live when they are being absorved by a passion; the guilty thoughts, remorse.  All these ideas or feelings go through a phase of death before they can open  to a new way of life.

Order and life can not be born but from chaos and death: these opponents are twin couples, or the two faces, diurnal and nocturnal.  Every progress is supported on a destruction.  Changing is at the same time to be born and to die.

It has been a recurrent topic in my work childhood as a symbol of victory over complexity and anxiety, as well as the conquest of the internal peace and self confidence. A return to the origin, to our instinctive nature. Since the child is physically small and his conscious thoughts are few and simple, we don‚t realize the long term complications of the child‚s mind based on its original identity with the primeval psyche. That "original mind" is so present and functional with a child as the evolutionary stages of humanity in the embryonic body.

In the Hindu tradition, childhood is the previous state to the obtaining of knowledge; in the Christian tradition the angels are represented with infantile features, in sign of innocence and purity; for the Taoism, the childhood is simplicity and spontaneity

The image of infancy, takes us to our original nature: its peculiar thoughts and its instincts. In the primitive ages, when the instinctive concepts of men were sprouting in the mind, the conscious mind did not hesitate in integrating them into coherent psychic scheme. These organs of assimilation and integration were symbols of light, accepted commonly as sacred.

Images, symbols, myths, are not irresponsible creations of the psyche, they respond to a need and they fill a function: shed light to the most secretive aspects of beeing.

bio

born:1967, México

education:

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1990
Escuela Naciona de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, La Esmeralda, 1989

selected awards/honors

2000 Selected, Miniature Biennale  "Salle Agustine-Chernier", Ville- Marie, Quebec, Canada
1997 Selected, Drawing Biennale Diego Rivera, Guanajuato,Guanajuato, Mexico
1996  Artists in Residence. Ministery for Culture and Arts. Vienna, Austria
1994-1995 Guest Artist, School of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

selected publications

Mexico habla, Ixchel, Mexico, p.105-109, 2009
Muerte,  Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México p.14-15 2003
Boutielles a la terre, Nord/Pas de Calais, Lens, France, 2000

selected solo or two-person exhibits

2009 Inhumados, Germán Gedovious Gallery, San Luis Potosi, México
2008 Del cielo a la tierra,  Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, México, D.F. México
2007-2008 Formol, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México, D.F. México
Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Querétaro, México
2003 La Piedra y el Animal, Misrachi Art Gallery, México, D.F. México

selected group shows

2010 Carne, Museo de la Secretaria de Hacienda, Palacio del Arzobispado, México, D.F. México
2008 La mujer en el arte, Auditorio Nacional, México, D.F. México
2007 Apuntes sobre tanatología, 35 Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato, México
2002 Hasta el último detalle Museo Universitario, El Chopo, México, D.F. México