September is an approximation to the idea of national reality. The piece is composed by a random photographic recording of flags that could be found throughout Mexico City during September 2017, the front pages of different national newspapers that date from the same time, and the presence of the object known as flag, decontextualized from the public space and re-contextualized into the exhibition space.
Every month of september, the flag commemorates the Independence of Mexico. Since it is an object, its materiality is susceptible to the environment and to the passage of time. The moment it becomes a photographic image, its meaning becomes unstable. The homeland becomes a vulnerable object. Photography is as fragile as our memory, unstable fragments that change over time. September seeks to detonate our collective memory from the activation of possible meanings in a new network of relationships.
Image Meeting MMXXII Conflict and Discord. Contemporary Art Museum of Queretaro. Queretaro, Mexico, 2022.