Polvo eres

Cube contains 14 grams of remains of gum eraser with which 100 bodies were erased from Juarez’s newspaper, “PM”.

“Since the world drives to a delirious state of things, we must drive to a delirious point of view.” – Jean Baudrillard

In a fight against the aesthetic power of the narco-violence, my work consists in the disappearance – using gum eraser in a completely manual process – of cadavers that appear every day in the local newspaper of Ciudad Juarez Post Meridiem – renowned for the brutality and irony with which it handles  the issues related to drug trafficking in the Mexico/Us border.

The collected eraser residue becomes a metaphor for ashes, and in the ashes the bodies finally find rest. This action directly affects the memory of the city, and produces a document/residue that appeals to amnesty, because
it does not discriminate among the cadavers – victim or victimizer – which have already been judged on the newspaper and become a number in the ominous national landscape.

Through the invisibility of the bodies, this process makes visible the anesthetic problem that we face every day. It evaluates and reflects the aesthetic environment experienced on a daily basis through the media, and how they can shape and change the language and identity of a society surrounded and crossed by violence. My wok moves thorough scenarios of the (in)visible processes of collective imaginary where abandoned coolers, vacant lots, and forensic paraphernalia meet.