By Humberto Duque

I was born in Mexico City on January 22 1978. I was brought up here as well. My grandmother being a Boston native, my mother thought I should know a little bit more about our family background and culture, so I was sent over to New England. I spent my sophomore year of high school in Rhode Island. I finished school back in Mexico City and studied Graphic Design at U.N.A.M. which is the equivalent to the State University here in Mexico. I didn’t like it much there so after a year I decided to switch to Visual Arts at La Esmeralda, located at the Centro Nacional de las Artes ( National Centre of the Arts). This is a place that holds different schools, like: Acting, Music, Film , Dance and Visual Arts of course. I’m currently on the last year of the career. My major interests for the past years have definitely been on video and drawing. What I like about them is that they behave as some sort of writing, a transparent writing to be more explicit. The way that the video camera establishes a link with reality by capturing it, and then how it transforms it and affects me as an artist and society is very significant. Thinking about a language of video, as a structure that lies or moves underneath the media, the work of art and the discourse has also been of great interest to me. Drawings are structures, processes. They are immediate and in certain ways unsteady. I think video is a little bit like that too. I mean, the fact that anyone can grab a video camera , shoot, and then work the material out on a computer program just fascinates me. And in the end, the images just don’t exist, they happen. Video happens in time .
After I finish school here, I’d love to go to Grad School abroad. I’ve definitely thought of the U.S. as an important alternative, thinking that such an experience would enrich my process as a professional artist.

Title: Mexico-Mexico
Show: The Wounded City





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