The bastard son of the Revolution
2025 - on going
In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, the State constructed a traditional family model that served as the backbone of the national project: a father as provider, a mother as caregiver, and children as the promise of the future. During the so-called Mexican Miracle (1940–1970), this configuration was reinforced through official discourse and embodied in social policies, media narratives, and habitual practices. The figure of the Mexican man was shaped as an “obedient” worker—often absent, with a life divided between the casa grande and the casa chica.
The Bastard Son of the Revolution departs from that ideological construction to explore how these imaginaries persist in the present. It does not attempt to reconstruct a historical narrative, but to observe how its fragments survive: in inherited gestures, everyday objects, and patterns that repeat without being named. The images do not aim to illustrate a genealogy, but to strain it. This project inhabits the ruins of an official narrative that still operates; thinking from that place also means searching, through the image, for a way to accompany what was not said, what remains unseen, what is not fully inherited—yet still persists.
Project in progress with the support of the Jóvenes Creadores grant from the National System for Culture and the Arts, 2025 period.
