Cautivos + Pawqartampu + Soga de Muerto

This work stems from two motivations. The first one responds to children's experiences in the mystical and sacred imaginary coming from a very close family and social environment, which helped me to find an audiovisual atmosphere that responded to something more than anthropological research. The second is a revisit of the spiritual meaning through the observation and experience of the different types of manifestations in different places of Latin America. This impulse is due to the demystification of religious institutions and the agnostic perspective that surrounded me at that time, an impulse that led me to resort to the audiovisual practice as a way to approach experiences of this kind, and investigations on religious manifestations and traditions serve as a complement to which, deep down, represents the role of transfiguring the representation of the sacred.

This piece bears a certain relation to the principles I address in other works: death, landscape, the sacred and its symbolic drifts, and the relationship between image and time, image and history, and image and truth.

Felipe Esparza Pérez​ in a statement to PLATFORM:VB (August 2017)