Videos

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Letters to Home II

2023
LETTERS TO HOME II is an expanded cinema installation in which the artist delivers a letter to his late father, Julio. The letter unfolds as a film in two parts, projected onto a minimalist structure made of salvaged pieces from his father’s shed. The film blurs modes of poetic documentary and narrative, punctuated with moments of abstraction. At once intimate and myth-making, the letter reflects on how places and history link across generations, how memory and loss mark a sense of home, and how leaving is intertwined with belonging.
Added on: August 2, 2024

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Letters to Home, Pt. 1

2021
In “Letters to Home, Pt. 1”, two short films are projected onto a tiny house in-between construction and collapse. The main film is projected onto the back wall of the home’s interior, which visually references the church of Solentiname, Nicaragua––a historic utopian site pivotal to the country’s revolutionary movement. The film unfolds as “letters” to family in Louisiana. Both intimate and socially conscious, the letters regard familial love, migration, security, addiction, loss and grief, and The American Dream. The exterior features a silent loop of the artist’s mother cooking a traditional Nicaraguan dish. // Mixed media; Interior video, audio, 20m; exterior video 4m 35s; 216 x 120 x 132 in
Added on: August 23, 2022

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Altered No. 1 (Sisyphus)

2023
In Sisyphus Altered, a strange scaffolding composed of studs and house remnants holds up an ashtray coated inside with decades’ worth of compacted cigarette dust. It now holds bits of burnt sage, which you can’t see, but maybe you believe it. Fragments of a shed, beaten-up wood, layers of exterior house paint, an old lawnmower blade, and a stepladder with heart-holes gesture at labor and memory, assembled together with elements of artifice such as fake flowers, astroturf, and gold leaf. Pieces of the shed are backlit by a light that dangles from a prusik knot, its wires spliced together by a blood-knot. Projected onto the installation is a short film regarding blades of grass.
Added on: August 2, 2024

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Skylight (Tragarás Luz)

2022
Window & video projection 32 x 29 x 38 inches; 1m 45s
Added on: August 23, 2022

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Waiting Room

2020
“Waiting Room” is an elegy of sorts––a reflection on my father's sudden passing, and its timing just preceding our shared reality of mass mourning. It's an attempt to render personal loss into something transcendent In the waiting room, a door frame is a body/ is a screen / is a headstone. In the threshold, my father shares an anecdote about survival, and elusive images demand repetition. A blue voice welcomes you, beckons you to share in it. // Wood, fabric, astro turf, video, audio, 14m, 52s; dimensions variable
Added on: August 23, 2022

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Father Tongue

2020
2 ch. video, audio, 3m 35s; Father and son each reading in their secondary language, stumbling––on the emergence of language gaps between generations and slippages of translation. And beyond language? Text from Cien Años de Soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
Added on: August 23, 2022

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Portals

2019
Wood, window blinds, CRTV, couch, silent-loop projection, 3-channel video/projection with audio, 6m 25s Dimensions variable / center film 97 x 184 x 100 in
Added on: August 23, 2022

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Vase

2019
Medicine Cabinet, Spoon, Video, Audio, 2m 53s; 46 x 36 inches
Added on: August 23, 2022

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Oración de la Casita

2019
Oración de la Casita is structured like a poem. Bilingual text underscores collaged visuals, intentionally without translation, drawing links between memory and language in the formation of subjectivity. Credit: at 1:39m a passage of text is pulled from Diana's Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik and translated by Yvette Siegert // Mixed media, video projection, audio, 3m 42s 80 x 82 x 34 in.
Added on: August 23, 2022

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HOME NOT HOME

2019
Mixed media, video projection, audio, 11m 20s 30 x 55 inches
Added on: August 23, 2022