One does not arrive in El Alto. One emerges. As if from another life and into the mist — panting in the high, thin air, neither here nor there.
This book is a journey through the layered heart of La Paz—its mountains, myths, and the people who live in the city's margins. Sensory, fragmentary, and deeply human, Unseen blurs the line between memory and myth, reality and dream.
A selection of works exploring decay, transformation, and the sensory archaeology of place— from the Andean peaks of Bolivia to the city beneath them.
Rooted in salvaged materials, my studio practice explores decay, transformation, and the hidden stories objects carry before vanishing.
I am an anthropologist and visual artist whose work lives at the intersection of memory, place, and transformation. Raised in La Paz, Bolivia, I carry the city in everything I make, its mountains, its margins, its myths, its silences.
My practice is rooted in a particular attention to the ways a wide range of stimuli can be perceived through different senses and how these phenomena overlap, creating an infinity of possibilities. This sensory awareness shapes everything I do, allowing me to reflect on my own position within the historical, geographic, and cultural contexts in which I have lived and worked. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and writing, I give form to what cities leave unsaid. I find beauty in what is about to disappear: objects, stories, people on the edge of visibility.
I am the founder and director of the Transatlantic Network on Mental Health and the Arts (TRAMHA), and my work has been shown and published internationally.
