Calms and tempest of the Van de Veldes

Appropriating the maritime art of Willem van de Velde the Younger and Wilem van de Velde the Elder, most of the image is removed leaving only the textile objects portrayed. The image isolates a technology that reveals the effective power of long distance sailing at a time when European coloniality was in its apogee.

En la cocina y con la pierna rota

Using iron maiden's font and tie dye imagery Spanish popular sayings that reveal internalized misogynist, homophobic, classist or racist attitudes.

Ties

Lugo tied 60 ties around his neck, face and head while a mirror was held to his face. Once his head was covered with ties he spun. The performance ended as he left the room.

Border towns

 

Border towns is generated using Google Earth and Photoshop to assemble maps of cities and towns that spread north and south of the Mexico-U.S. border. The roads of these towns  are digitally traced discarding in the process all cartographic and topographic information with the intention to reveal the arbitrary and abstract nature of national boundaries.

Laundry folds

Laundry folds is the photographic documentation of a perfomative gesture that consists of regularly and systematically sorting, washing, drying, folding and sorting again the garments and textile objects used in the artist's house. Week by week, I fold this laundry, classify it and stack it into sculptural forms that are then photographed on a white table against a white background.  I have inconsistently built this body of work for the past five years.

Dark Harbour

Dark Harbour is a replica of a sail boat's hull's section below the water line placed upside down on the floor.

Receipt Accumulation

Receipt Accumulation is the collection of all the monetary transactions of the household I inhabited at the time during a trimester. The front of the receipts were glued to the wall so that only the back was visible to the viewer. They were arranged chronologically from left to right, stacking up the transaction that occurred on the same day.  This work also took the form of a roll of receipts accumulated for a trimester that was attached to a gallery wall