He is currently working with complex installations which include digital resolutions and experimentation with lighting; he is also working on a vast series titled "islands", that coincides with his main project language. Taking advantage of daily works by the Roma neighborhood he photographs the multiple cracks in walls and then turns them into art: digital prints of invented geographic islands and oceans. Names of capital cities and towns, phrases euphemisms and slangs belonging to his text collection appear. The words generality come from national newspapers and the New York Times and are meticulously recorded in notebooks that the artist treasures.
His solo projects include National and International Museums such as: Museo de Arte Moderno, Laboratorio Alameda; Exteresa Arte Actual; MUAC National University Contemporary Art; MACG Carrillo Gill Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS); UAM, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; ENA, Escuela nacional de Arte Plástico; Celda Contemporáneo, Antiguo Palacio
del Arzobispado; La Torse de los Vientos, México City, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO. He has represented Mexico in different Biennales, such as Paris, Soo Paul and Havana, obtained the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 994 and is Currently a members of the National System of Creators of the Fondo National Para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA, México).
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Text courtesy Jose Cuervo
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