ARTIST PROFILE

Alejandro Morales

  • Mexico (b. 1990 in Juarez)
  • Currently in Juarez, Mexico.
  • Artist and curator, has been working with narcoviolence issues of his city and country, specially through the analysis and manipulation of media.
His head was destroyed

His head was destroyed

  • 2014
  • reapropiation, edition of 1
  • 30 x 30 cm
  • Newspaper 9 x 15; Gum residue 3 x 10 cm

  • Le 20estallan 20la 20cabeza  202014
  • Le 20estallan 20la 20cabeza  2009 10 10. 20los 20desastres 20de 20la 20narcoguerra
  • Le 20estallan 20la 20cabeza  2009 10 10. 20los 20desastres 20de 20la 20narcoguerra 20(2)
  • His head was destroyed - thumbnail Lo acribillan - thumbnail 19 last monday - thumbnail She ways dry up - thumbnail Month closes with 288 - thumbnail Perro se comía brazo - thumbnail Le dan en la Madrid - thumbnail

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    Post Meridiem/Post Mortem | 2014

A series of Juarez, Mexico newspapers, one of the most violent cities in the world, manually manipulated with gum eraser, where the daily narco-cadavers that appear in brutal ways have been erased to address the issues of hiperrealistic images in the contemporary media. In addition, the residues of the gum eraser are shown as part of the work, as a metaphor of Ashes, rescuing the dignity of the body and through aesthetics, achieve the collective mourn of a society crossed by the narcoviolence.