Museum Glass, digitally captured photographs, 2026
In Museum Glass, I photograph Mesoamerican objects through the vitrines and reflective surfaces of LACMA’s new galleries. In trying to look toward objects that have come to signify an abstracted Mexican ancestral heritage displaced in the United States, the images instead reflect back the conditions of the present. Through the camera, the museum becomes an optical machine that reveals and withholds, collapsing artifacts, bodies, architecture, and the city outside its glass walls into a single layered plane. The past is not denied, but folded into a palimpsest where inheritance appears not as recovery but as an atmosphere of ambiguity and near illegibility.
