Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso is an exercise in post-memory which stems from unearthing my father's photographic archive after his death, and discovering his missionary work in Brazil before I was born. From the discrepancies between the images and his own account of the story, a questioning of memory and the materials of memory is produced.

Through the use of photographs from the family album, those from my father's own archive and new images photographed by me, a dispute of meanings takes place and my family's foundational fantasies and their representation in our family album come into play, along with the operating power structures present in colonialism, capitalism, and the Catholic missions.

Mato Grosso is the winning project of the IV edition of Fotolibro<40, an initiative of the Community of Madrid coordinated by Jesús Micó and is a finalist for the Best Author's Book Prize at Arles, Les Rencontres de la Photographie and the Felifa International Prize

Mato Grosso es el proyecto ganador de la IV edición de Fotolibro<40, una iniciativa de la Comunidad de Madrid coordinada por Jesús Micó.

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