What pieces or projects have you been working on lately?
I’ve been working on a self-portrait project titled Ready for the first act, where I hold a conversation with myself about my anxieties and insecurities while exploring how to portray my femininity through metaphors, analog image interventions, and by relying on symbolism I can incorporate through art direction
In these images I see myself as a doll that I control and that performs: a doll I care for but also mistreat. I study the duality between infantilization and objectification, between feeling “not enough” and the urge to please the outside world. I’m searching for an aesthetic of error, something that needs beauty but is imperfect, as if life were a dollhouse in which I have to learn how to live.
What did you learn (or unlearn) while working on them?
Even though I’ve been working with self-portraiture for years, I feel that through these photos I’m learning again how to portray myself, how to know myself, and above all how to trust my ideas and the process. I unlearned seeing my anxiety and insecurities as something bad, and began to see them as a source of inspiration and, in a way, as a fiction created by my mind, just like many of the photos I take and the images I produce.
What words, ideas or emotions were going through your head?
The words surrounding this process are femininity, performance, acting, duality, identity, and mirror. I want to express a playful idea, like someone who played with dolls as a child and now has a list of questions: “What’s today’s act?”, “Who do I choose to be?”, “How will I treat the person in the mirror today?”
Were there any conversations, movies, music, or books that made their way into that work?
Indirectly Frances Ha (2012), especially for the feeling of not being a “proper” adult. For anxiety themes, I’d say Beau is Afraid (2023), for its extreme sense that something is always wrong. As for books, during the process I finished reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, whose vision of female life influenced me in creating this atmosphere.
What's been the most difficult thing you've faced recently in your creative process?
Right now, the hardest thing is showing myself as an artist and photographer. Finding a balance between my authorial side and my commercial side so that both feel authentic.
What is your favorite restaurant and what do you recommend we order?
Nothing beats having French toast for breakfast at Buendía Pan y Café. I’m also obsessed with Pho Mama San, especially the Pho Bo Tai.
If your life were a movie this month, what would it be called and who would write the soundtrack?
It would be called Before October Ends. In my birthday month I try to close several processes and start others before it’s over. I’d love for the soundtrack to be done by the sisters HAIM.
Recommend one or more artists you follow who inspire you, and tell us what you like most about their work or their way of working.
I’m very captivated by the work of Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon; the way she shoots, paints, and intervenes in her images feels magical to me—she creates unreachable worlds through her analog technique. Szilvester Makó inspires me greatly for his ability to bring the language of fairy tales into his photographs.
(Caracas, 1993) Photographer and visual artist based in Mexico City. She is interested in intervening in and manipulating photography as an object through analog and digital processes, as well as expressing emotions and metaphors through the use of color and staging.