Interviews

"If it is absolutely necessary for art or theater to serve any purpose, it will be to teach people that there are activities that are useless and that it is essential that they exist."

-Eugène Ionesco

  • Life is bigger than architecture

    Life is bigger than architecture

    What has had the greatest impact in recent months and weeks has been the accidents and coincidences of everyday life in the city, like finding a book I didn’t know I was looking for or discovering random places that are becoming my favorite spots.

  • Paint fiction

    Paint fiction

    Too much planning doesn’t pay off. I have sketchbooks stacked to the ceiling, full of ideas, but the second I stand in front of a canvas, all of that seems to dissolve. I paint from instinct, and the planning becomes a very vague guide.

  • Todo empezó con una cámara rota

    Todo empezó con una cámara rota

    He estado trabajando en múltiples exposiciones. Me gusta el dinamismo que se logra con el uso de flashes y largas exposiciones, tratando de sacarle el mayor provecho posible a mi equipo, sobre todo por el reto técnico que representa.

  • Constelaciones y derivas

    Constelaciones y derivas

    La idea de las constelaciones apunta justamente a eso, a que cada quien pueda construir sus propias relaciones y conexiones, y pensar la curaduría como un mapa, no como un camino. El camino lo hace quien lo explora.

  • AKE STUDIO

    AKE STUDIO

    Lo que ha hecho diferente a Ake Studio desde el principio es que nunca lo he visto solamente como un taller de cerámica. Siempre ha sido mi lugar feliz, un espacio que he construido con mucho cariño y al que me gusta que las personas sientan que también pertenecen.

  • Building dialogues

    Building dialogues

    The gallery grew from a desire to build a programme led by ideas rather than market demands. I wanted to create exhibitions that were intellectually rigorous while remaining emotionally engaging, with each exhibition responding closely to its architecture and context.

  • Como si fuera un sueño

    Como si fuera un sueño

    Me he dado cuenta de que, desde hace años, la fotografía para mí es una práctica continua, donde no reconozco inicios o finales, sino un espacio flexible en el que se van acumulando imágenes. Creo que por eso mi relación con el concepto de archivo es importante.

  • Efecto mariposa

    Efecto mariposa

    Muchos de mis recuerdos de la niñez son con mi familia y amigos sentados alrededor de una mesa. Es especial darte cuenta de cómo el mobiliario te acompaña de manera silenciosa en la convivencia y cómo esos objetos detonan memoria y afecto.

  • If the wind lingers

    If the wind lingers

    By deliberately abandoning sharp focus, I aim to mirror the fluidity of time, using motion and the unseen wind as a brush to paint with light, shadow, texture, and atmosphere. The scenes transform into something closer to a lingering memory than a physical reality.

  • Turning everyday life into cinema

    Turning everyday life into cinema

    Sometimes I return from a walk without taking a single frame. I prefer photographing only scenes that feel truly special to me, and if something is even slightly mediocre, I now choose to leave it. Shooting five photos in a day already feels like a big success to me.

  • Cartografía en tránsito

    Cartografía en tránsito

    No pertenecemos del todo al lugar al que llegamos, pero ya no resonamos completamente con el lugar de donde venimos. Existimos en ese espacio intermedio. Y, sin embargo, ahí también hay celebración: la capacidad extraordinaria de florecer en la incertidumbre, de construir comunidad desde la vulnerabilidad.

  • Gadjo Dilo

    Gadjo Dilo

    I don’t keep track of people’s names and don’t know too much about famous photographers. I see stuff on IG, but I don’t know how to find them for you. Off the top of my head, I like Suffo Moncloa. I like Aitor Laspiur, his aesthetics and subjects.

  • Nightmare in suspension

    Nightmare in suspension

    My working method has, for years, been tied to several specific projects: projects focused on particular psychological, philosophical, and political concepts. Themes such as ideology, demythologization, human suffering, resistance, power, critique, and confronting capitalism. I advance my concerns simultaneously and then categorize them into different collections.

  • La historia de una caja de pizza

    La historia de una caja de pizza

    A más de 30 años de su creación, todos hablan de esa playera, pero muy pocos conocen al hombre detrás de ella. Por eso, para esta colaboración, Cancino buscó a Ricardo Guzmán para intervenir un objeto muy especial para la marca: la caja de pizza del Mundial.

  • Inevitable

    Inevitable

    At first it was a lot of imposter-syndrome thoughts, but then I came to a place of calm and the ideas started flowing really effortlessly. I drew meaning from some past traumas, and it felt empowering to express those feelings through my work.

  • GA_P Studio

    GA_P Studio

    Más allá de la arquitectura, el estudio se construye sobre una manera particular de entender el mundo, donde los valores y la filosofía nos llevan a pensar, examinar y razonar el funcionamiento, la visión, la misión y el sentido profundo de lo que hacemos.

  • Where am I

    Where am I

    Taking these nighttime pictures has been therapeutic and has helped me focus on what kind of photographs I want to be remembered for. I still feel anxious shooting alone at night, but I’m learning that I’m often the only one holding myself back.

  • The art of waiting

    The art of waiting

    The work arises from a condition in which time, matter and reaction operate without a predetermined outcome. The image is what remains when this condition is interrupted out of necessity. Each work is the trace of a temporal decision, rather than a predesigned image.

  • A day outside the hospital

    A day outside the hospital

    It was difficult to understand that I have schizophrenia and that I need monthly injections and medication. Somehow, my creative process has become more relaxed and confident. I try to return to a simpler kind of photography, focused on everyday life and what the camera does.

  • Floating into space

    Floating into space

    I’m forever learning while painting. I feel like there’s an endless internal monologue going through my head that guides me whichever way feels right in the moment. When you’re so immersed in any art form, it’s very easy to almost get lost in it.

  • Nathalia Ramírez Studio

    Nathalia Ramírez Studio

    La naturaleza sigue siendo una de mis principales fuentes de inspiración. Me atraen especialmente sus formas, patrones y estructuras, así como la manera en que la luz interactúa con ellas. Busco reinterpretarlas a través de los materiales, el color y la luz para crear piezas que transmitan sensaciones.

  • Amar la sed

    Amar la sed

    Al ser un proyecto tan personal donde casi todas las decisiones finales en cuanto a repertorio y a qué quiero contar las tomo yo, me dejo llevar por lo que siento en cada momento y por aquellas canciones que me emocionan particularmente.

  • Chaos and control

    Chaos and control

    The project grew out of a need to pause and notice what usually goes unseen: the subtle, almost fragile moments between movement and stillness. I learned to trust doubt as part of the process, not as weakness, but as something that keeps the work alive.

  • Au soleil

    Au soleil

    Siempre habrá una silla, un huequito, para sentarnos la una al lado de la otra. “Au soleil” cuenta una historia de amor entre las chicas de esas fotos, y el estribillo es una promesa de esperarla au soleil.

  • Somewhere in between

    Somewhere in between

    I realised I should trust those first takes, my intuition and instincts. A lot of inspiration for my work comes from the things that I feel, imagine, remember, long for, love doing or wish I’d be doing more.

  • Fragments from a cereal box

    Fragments from a cereal box

    They include small, flat ceramic figurines that I make based on tracings of drawings my Gramma did for me when I was around four years old. She would draw them on the backs of cereal or cracker boxes, and I’d lay them out on the TV room floor.

  • Between weight and form

    Between weight and form

    Photography for me is an anchor memory of experience, a trace of encountering another presence. In the studio, I work with figurative vessels shaped by rhythm, body and intuition, searching for verticality, weight and volume while allowing material and emotion to merge into form.

  • Going up the country

    Going up the country

    Bringing raw materials and canvas into my studio was so eye opening and humbling. It’s a different process and I’ve had quite a few learning curves, but it’s been so fun and worth it. Something that I face a lot is when an idea doesn’t come out as planned.

  • Devoción

    Devoción

    Quería que alguien entrara y sintiera que lo estaban viendo a él. No las fotos. Él. Que cada imagen fuera un espejo en lugar de una ventana. Que saliera pensando en algo que cree, que ama, que venera y que quizás no se había permitido nombrar.

  • Clínica membrana

    Clínica membrana

    Vivimos rodeados de una presión constante por mostrar, publicar y terminar cosas. Lo más difícil ha sido defender los momentos donde todavía no existe una obra, donde sólo hay observación, dudas o asociaciones aparentemente inconexas. Muchas veces el trabajo más importante ocurre antes de que exista algo que fotografiar.