Mara Sanchez Renero

– Casa Wabi 2019

Community Project

ASÍ ME VEO
At first, I thought that the activity would be carried out with a fishermen’s cooperative in the Zapotalito lagoon, but when I arrived and began to talk, in their stories, the word tourism appeared all the time; –
Where are the fish? – There are no fish, now we all fight for the few tourists who come to take the boat to Chacahua. – All that was was no longer; everything we were is gone.
During the project, I was able to share my knowledge about photography to use it as a means of communication, but it is the exchange between what I could contribute and the stories, interests and needs that Melchor, Vicente, Alfredo, Gilberta, Karma, Hebert, Antonio, and Leonor contributed, which created the essence of the workshop, an exercise in reflection on their identity and their environment.
It was wonderful to go together in this process, where we talked about life, the past, and the present. We drew the scenes of what they were going to photograph so that, later, they traveled through their daily life with the camera, looking for the photos that would end up forming the story they wanted to tell and share with their community.
I ended up surprised by the stories that each one showed, and I understand that the community project is
an exchange that the original ideas are transformed from what each of the participants contributes.

Log-Piece

  • The inbetween corridor (2019) Impresión papel metálico, acrílico

The inbetween corridor (2019)
Impresión papel metálico, acrílico

México

she currently lives in the Mexican territory

Mara Sánchez Renero (Mexico) studied photography in Barcelona, Spain, where she lived for 10 years. She was part of the boom group of 2008, in Spain, where she was co-founder of the colectivo Malocchio and PHACTO. Since 2012 she has focused mainly on identity issues within the Mexican territory where she currently lives.
Her work has been rewarded and exhibited in several parts of the world, among them; France, Switzerland, India, Spain, Cuba, USA and Mexico. She received the 1st place of the POY Latam Iberoamérica Nuestra mirada de memoria e identidad 2015 and the SAIF photographer revelation award, at the Voies Off festival in Arles, France. Her project El Cimarrón y su fandango was part of the Visual Arts program of the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores and was exhibited in Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Belize and Panama.
She is currently part of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte de México (SNCA).
In her work, Mara Sánchez-Renero is interested in finding places where she can generate a scenario to explore the instability of the human condition. In her photographs we can witness the dissolution of identity built by isolating men and women from their everyday context and show them in the space rather than their imaginary, of their mythical existence and thus face the uncertain nature of the human being.
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