This ongoing project, initiated in 2012, is an artistic intervention into the Mejía ID Photo Collection housed at the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA) in Antigua Guatemala. Through this project, I aim to explore the fluidity of cultural narratives and the contested spaces of identity, memory, and collective representation within the Latin American context. The intention is to make the archive’s content accessible, fluid, and open to reinterpretations, sparking new conversations about collective identity, cultural transformation, and the conditions of being Guatemalan.

ENTRAR ADENTRO SALIR AFUERA is rooted in a transdisciplinary approach. It aims to explore and reinterpret archival practices while engaging with socio-anthropological concepts of identity, cultural flux, and Latin American realities. By recontextualizing fragments of texts, names, words, and images extracted from the archive and socio-anthropological contextual frameworks, this work attempts to position itself as a re-conceptualization device, navigating between rigid binaries and contemporary cultural debates.

The work transforms the archival material into a dynamic constellation of interconnected elements, continuously reassembling meaning through projections, prints, books, and immersive displays. Through this fragmentation and reassembly process, I intend to extract, de-construct, and re-construct texts, names, images, and concepts from the archive, systematically reorganizing them in a rhizomatic display. This approach swings and swivels from the universal—the grand narrative of authorship—to the particular—the fragment—and back, opening conversations that challenge binaries and embrace multiplicity.

Presented in multiple formats, this project includes an artist’s book, public discussions, and multiform exhibitions that adapt to different media and environments, ranging from projections to printed matter and Xerox-based installations. Its flexible, evolving nature underscores its capacity to induce questions on how archival fragmentation and artistic interpretations can generate new narratives and meanings.


*Note 1: All content and artistic texts in the book are in Spanish / El contenido total de textos en este libro están trabajados en idioma Español, o bien en Castellano.
**Note 2: This research project is part of a total constellation of works which can be presented in a array of possibilities, while supports, sizes and media can vary (projections, prints, wall mounts, indoors/outdoors, xerox’s, etc). It includes an artist book, book presentations with discussions on the topics and multiform exhibition displays.