Home for a zopilote

In 1990 Mariana faced domestic violence within her marriage. After 10 years and three children, she found in witchcraft an escape route through rituals, protection amulets and a support network.

This gave rise to a witches’ house, a space that Mariana built as a heterotopia. A counter-space incompatible with the homogeneous and institutionalized places of Mexico City. Witchcraft became for Mariana and the rest of the women who now inhabit the witches’ house a space of accompaniment and containment for the violence experienced in the monstrous city.

“Home for a zopilote” is a photographic project that reveals scenes of this hidden and magical space where rituals take place and objects evoke other forms of care: ointments, toads, vultures, grass, stones, etc.

Using visual metaphors and digital intervention techniques, a universe is created in which magic, chaos, resistance, beauty and nostalgia are experienced in order to recognize other strategies where ways of sharing and approaching pain are cultivated in order to re-signify it.