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Artist Statement
I grew up walking past these railings. As a girl born in Mexico City, the green iron fence of Chapultepec was the edge of a forest that felt like the whole world, and Reforma was the river that carried me past it on the way to somewhere else. Back then it was only a fence. That changed in 2002, when the photographs of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's "Earth From Above" were hung along the railings for the first time and Mexico City discovered that its most famous avenue could also be its largest gallery.
In the years since, the Rejas have carried the sculptures of Juan Soriano, the photographs of Nacho López and Leo Matiz, the memory of the students of 1968, thirty years of Zapatista history, sixty years of the Museo de Antropología. It has become the place where this country holds up the images it wants to argue about, grieve over, and be proud of, and it does so without a ticket, a threshold, or a museum hush. Hundreds of thousands of people pass this fence every month. A vendor pushing a cart, a child on her father's shoulders, a couple stealing a minute on a bench, all of them meet these images on equal terms, in the open air of the city that made me.
HOPE is a body of work about the living ocean and the people who still fight for it, and it belongs here, in the country that taught me to see. Mexico gave me Iturbide's silences and Kahlo's unflinching gaze, the color of Diego’s murals and the stubborn tenderness of people who refuse to give up on the places they love. To bring these pictures home, to this fence, on this street, is to return something I was given. I left as a young biologist with a camera. I come back as a witness, carrying a sea of HOPE to the city I love, letting it know that the girl who once walked past these gates is still out there somewhere, looking out.
Partners
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FOMARES and SeaLegacy are leading an initiative that culminates in a high-level summit—Ocean Catalyst—dedicated to driving and accelerating coastal-marine conservation efforts in Mexico.
The summit will take place on March 17, 2027.
The initiative seeks to raise the importance of oceans within social and political consciousness, while strengthening Mexico's position as a global leader in the Blue Agenda.