Santocho Querido

The Santocho Querido project brings together a series of maps, drawings, photographs, and videos exploring my family’s relationship with Santo Domingo, Coyoacán, a neighborhood in southern Mexico City created through Latin America’s largest illegal land occupation and consolidated through self-construction. The project gathers and circulates stories that constantly blur the line between reality and fiction.

My family is a typical family from Pedregal de Santo Domingo. They migrated from other parts of the country in the late 1960s and took part in the illegal land occupation.

I made embroidered bags with subjective maps in which members of my family placed construction material from their homes while making a wish. The back of each bag is made from porous fabric so that the construction material drains away over time.

I drew the migration routes followed by my grandparents, parents and uncles, from their places of origin to Mexico City.