Tepito is considered the most criminal part of Mexico City. The city´s sector consist nearly exclusively of streets that sales illegal goods just about anything and everything imaginable. Whether it is films and related products, technical equipment, clothing, computer programs etc. yet, next to this lifestyle, on the quarter of a mile densely packed, bazar like extension, there are the “Tepiteños”, the people that live in Tepito. That is there is a “normal” life in the Labyrinth.
There I did a work based on the elaboration of a series of day- and night faces of the people that live and work in Tepito. A new image of Tepito emerged during this process of elaboration of portraits - a new image of the Labyrinth.
To me the interesting thing is the decryption of the codes of this part of the city based on the portraits and life- and ways of working, that go beyond the divided faces and lead also to the one- channel video installations.
It is the attempt to create an orientation in a different other world.
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