2023 Mexico
A rose is a rose is a rose
Returning the Crushed Rose to Three-Dimensional Space through Shadow
This series begins with the identification of the red rose as a powerful symbol in the construction and perpetuation of romantic love. I adopt this symbol within a narrative that articulates, in a metaphorical and often poetic manner, different possible outcomes, transforming the relationship between the rose and its meaning.
Through visual and performative exercises, I subject the flower to incidents that are spectacularly violent to its nature and integrity. Exposing its fragility, weakening it, and sanctioning the symbol become acts of “reckoning”: an attempt to subvert its symbolic weight and to resignify it.
In other works, the rose acquires the qualities of a character, functioning as a metaphor for emotions that emerge within toxic relationships, deception, desperation, pain, suffocation.
Working across photography, video art, and video performance, I seek to provoke a reflection on the need to question and deconstruct this type of sexual-affective bond, which often carries a high cost for women.
Remaking and Returning the Red Rose to My Husband/ Video Art 2023
I alter both audio and image in reverse to symbolically transform a gesture: the act of giving a red rose. By reconstructing it and returning it, I reclaim the narrative, intervening in a sign of validation embedded within “Disney love”—an affective fantasy with a historically high cost for women. The process of remaking the flower becomes a gesture of resistance and reappropriation.
Ironed Rose / Video Performance 2023
Documentation of the action of ironing a rose, alluding to invisible domestic labor. Through the force and repetition of this gesture—historically associated with the female role—I replace the shirt with the flower: a symbol that has contributed to the consolidation of the myth of romantic love.
The act becomes an exercise in inversion and questioning, a way of imbuing the body that performs the action with agency.