Tlaxcala, Mexico. 1995.
My work is focused on studying my blood’s memory, I’m the daughter of a mestizo father and a Nahua mother, and my interests lie in the study of identity, territory, orality, pain and rituality within my personal history.
The night as a space of time full of blind spots where the hidden reigns and what is socially correct is transgressed is an assiduous concern in my gaze, I am drawn to the visceral aspects of human existence. Writing, and especially poetry is constantly accompany my work, serving as a guide to investigate and understand my concerns.
Currently, by giving workshops, lectures and exhibiting my photographs in schools and cultural centers in rural areas of Tlaxcala, I seek for my work to return and live in the spaces and people that forged my vision of the world; decentralize art, taking photography to spaces where there are no museums or galleries is an ethical pillar for me.
I studied a BA in Craft Design (2013-2017) at the University of Guadalajara with complementary study residences in Art History and Social Anthropology (2018). In 2020, I completed the International Diploma in Cultural Heritage from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). I attended photography workshops at the San Agustín Arts Center founded by artist Francisco Toledo in Etla, Oaxaca. In 2022, I graduated from the Photographic Production Seminar of the Centro de la Imagen and I was a beneficiary of the Young Creators Scholarship Award of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in the photography category. In 2023, my work was part of the exhibition La Materia que se Borra at the Centro de la Imagen, in this same year, I was selected for the Trasatlántica program of Photo España and I got the loan of a camera as a prize from the portfolio review of the Mirar Distinto International Photography Festival in collaboration with Leica Mexico.
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The night as a space of time full of blind spots where the hidden reigns and what is socially correct is transgressed is an assiduous concern in my gaze, I am drawn to the visceral aspects of human existence. Writing, and especially poetry is constantly accompany my work, serving as a guide to investigate and understand my concerns.
Currently, by giving workshops, lectures and exhibiting my photographs in schools and cultural centers in rural areas of Tlaxcala, I seek for my work to return and live in the spaces and people that forged my vision of the world; decentralize art, taking photography to spaces where there are no museums or galleries is an ethical pillar for me.
I studied a BA in Craft Design (2013-2017) at the University of Guadalajara with complementary study residences in Art History and Social Anthropology (2018). In 2020, I completed the International Diploma in Cultural Heritage from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). I attended photography workshops at the San Agustín Arts Center founded by artist Francisco Toledo in Etla, Oaxaca. In 2022, I graduated from the Photographic Production Seminar of the Centro de la Imagen and I was a beneficiary of the Young Creators Scholarship Award of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in the photography category. In 2023, my work was part of the exhibition La Materia que se Borra at the Centro de la Imagen, in this same year, I was selected for the Trasatlántica program of Photo España and I got the loan of a camera as a prize from the portfolio review of the Mirar Distinto International Photography Festival in collaboration with Leica Mexico.
Sara Meneses Cuapio © All Rights Reserved