Sedimentaciones

ISBN: 979-8-3507-4832-1
By: Hernandez, Ingrid

ABOUT THE BOOK

The landscape photography and the construction of image series seek to reflect the coexistence of self-built homes with the topographical features of the places. The book’s format creates an immersive sense of space, unfolding its pages as part of a visual narrative that mimics walking through the city. The double, triple, and quadruple pages juxtapose images that generate new compositions. Through this editorial and artistic gesture, I seek to add layers of information that deepen the understanding of the city, making visible Tijuana as a space that challenges the idea that improvised techniques belong to the periphery, showing the city as a spontaneous, contradictory, and unstable space.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ingrid Hernandez

Ingrid Hernández (Tijuana, México) addresses urban shifts and transformation, focusing on the relationships between individuals and domestic spaces. Grounded in her training as a sociologist and visual artist, Hernández has focused her work in settlements autonomously constructed by migrants, deportees, and displaced people along the US-Mexico border, often utilizing materials discarded in the US and from maquiladoras on the Mexican side. Her artistic investigations find form as long term participative projects that include photography and engagement with collective memory, gathered through interviews. Recent awards and grants include the National System of Art Creators Grant (2022-2025), Acquisition prize. XIII Baja California Photography Biennial(2024), EFIARTES, Support for Investment Projects in Artistic Production (2024), among others. Her work has been exhibited in museums in Latin America, the US, and Europe; it was featured in The Matter of Photography: Experiments in Latin American Art Since the 60s, published by Stanford University Press. Irregular, a monograph of her work, was published by the Mexican Council of Arts and Culture. Hernández is co-founder of Relaciones Inesperadas, a space for the development of contemporary artistic practices and the fostering of critical dialogue in the arts, within a pedagogical context, established in Tijuana.