Born in Guatemala in 1957, my work has, from the very beginning, been a reflection on the gaze. How are eyes that stare back at us constructed in our internal experience? How are the shadows, the brightness, and all the geography implicit in each pho...
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Born in Guatemala in 1957, my work has, from the very beginning, been a reflection on the gaze. How are eyes that stare back at us constructed in our internal experience? How are the shadows, the brightness, and all the geography implicit in each photograph interpreted and elaborated within us? If our way of seeing is shaped by social and cultural factors, we can conclude that every gaze is political and that all artistic production is subject to this judgment. The gaze as power. From this, I can feel that the work of art is an opportunity to demonstrate this, to question our way of seeing, to interrogate the history that has produced all these gradations of the gaze and, consequently, our ways of reacting to the world. In my artistic process, I have tried to create images that invite examination through what I call "emotional contemplation," imbuing them with the meaning of their form through their beauty. Over the years, I have built scenarios and modified certain faces to create images that allow for other perceptions of the world, other ways of understanding it, and of modifying it internally.
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