Laura Tortosa

This photos presents  an artistic project conducted by both authors (Laura Tortosa and Maite Vroom) during a residence in Yucatán, Mexico, 2016. The project, entitled Portrait in 25. Mapping Memories between Tunkás and Izamal is driven by the need to know and explore different places through personal experiences, to discover micropolitical sources and analyze the artist’s involvement as an external agent in an ‘unknown’ local context. Through this work we find a chance to  participate in a different context and convey the meaning of the set of rules that frame their memory, cultural identity and common spaces. It was launched through anthropological and ethnographic strategies, in a rather light and amateur sense, to offer a suitable playground for interviews, fieldwork and, the gathering of objects and documents. All at once these strategies allow us to develop a plastic work in which photography, audiovisual, performance and editing are an essential part for the interpretation and reinterpretation of the individuals, and the context we inhabit. We go across physical space and collect objects seemingly insignificant or unnoticed to put them under another point of view. In the course of these actions the recognition of micropolitical issues is awakened as a symptom of global positions and, at the same time, we discover how global realities affect the local context.