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The screen broken in three echoes a colonial Tlaxcaltec codex. A montage over the political family militancy; the constant apparition of Tlaxcala as a welcoming territory to invasions. Images that move against the grain of the Indiginous prophecies that predicted the arrival of Spain; but also with the promises that preceded the signature of the TLC and the UFO historiography, so profoundly ingrained in Mexican idiosyncrasy.
In the bowels of a national museum you can find all kinds of ghosts, bodies that in life knew no cure, now turned into relics have found curatorship. Images of cultural vigor contrasted with the glorified trauma of the viewer. At the end of the tour, the artist understands that the entrance to the museum is a mausoleum.
Ministry of Health employs the aesthetics of horror movies and silent film to evoke the adverse effects of pharmaceuticals on four men living with HIV in the city of Tlaxcala, Mexico Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2020 as part of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.
