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Protection Helmets.

ested in this helmets-masks, women come to be warriors of this crusade wheredomestic object, genre and cirucumstance becomes a principle of strenght.

This series of photos belongs to a larger body of work entitledFamiliar Protection.


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The Boxing Ring. An installation which invites the public to feel theoverweight

and fight against the hardest diets. Three cities, more than 2,000 users.


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A gym, opened to the public for free where an instructor performes in avideo Gimnasia en su Hogar -famous LP of exercises from the 70s-, while

invites and order to the passer bys to stand up and do some exercise.Installed in

San Diego, California, during the Vigorexia Euphoria.A gym, opened to thepublic for free, an instructor performing in a video Gimnasia en su Hogar -famous


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A video collage of weight loss product infomercials, which were recorded during12 hours of night t.v. Programs. In some areas of Mexico, this kind of infomercials

are


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About the obesity and fatness. A collection of objects, testimonies,

photographic series, collages, soft sculptures, site specific interventions,and self ortraits.


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idwest, U.S.; Central Europe, two universes, two temporary studios conected througembroidered mantras, porno movies, and hot line conversations.

Love, pain , satisfaction, desire in the intimacy of a mattress.


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A collection of found mattresses. A photographic essay about abandonedrecycled, and dumped dreams surfaces.


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In London, I offered myself to sweep studios. I visited, swept, and gather dustFrom 180 artists studios. A series of photos of their cleaning implements

were shooted as well.


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Cuernavaca Fragance consists in a set of pool water essences. I visitedevery spa, motel, hotel, and popular cheap pools in Cuernavaca and around

the city where I took water from the swimming pools.This project is accompanied with a photographic serie.


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The Beauty Aestethics. This photographic document is an ongoing projectabout beauty parlours in cities, towns, or in the middle of nowhere, where

good taste concept redefine its meanings.


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700 samples of the favorite food of a community in Kansas, U.S.The food was collected, identified, vacuum-packed in plastic bags, andthen, with traditional quilt techiniques, the parts were sewed together.

The foodquilt depict one of the most important rituals in our society: toeat.


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A temporal appropiationof the landscape.A link between thefunctionaland the emotionalarchitecture.An invitation to see throughthe window.


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Against the abandon, the labor.30 days, 400 meters of embroiderytexts,and 30 dresses illustrating my everyd

thoughts. Temporal occupation of afactory nave of La Constancia, secolargest textile factory in Latin Americanow dismantled. Puebla, Mexico


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Take paper and pencil and draw your ideal home

This question was the starting point for produceand

install the representation of the ideal home ofthe

Inhabitants in social housing areas in Tijuana


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Like an strategy of appropriation, a group of taggers,through their sprayed texts, were the temporal

inhabitants in this exclusive hotel in Mexico City.


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000 posters with popular sayings on the streets, a bike converted in proverbs mailbo

1500 new sayings written by the passer-by. The street enter into the gallery space.


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Playas de Tijuana. Mexico-U.S. Border Wall. The Regimental Bandsdrum

beats to communicate orders and signal people movement: the


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Mexico-U.S. Border Division Wall. Atemporary interpretation of a landscape.


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1000 alarm clocks in La Salada DesertBaja California, Mexico

1000 alarm clocks in Giza DesertCairo, Egypt

3000 alarm clocks clicking at unison


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An object which symbolizes a weapon to protectus

An action that happens simultaneously in two border cities. This virtual battlegrounrepresents the situation of violence in the border at the same time that turns the

tools of domesticity into the tools of war.

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