© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons

Koral Carballo’s work is based on Photography but relates to oral history, archiving, portraiture, and visual poetry expanding representations linked to necropolitical violence, Afro-descendence, and its relation with memory.

© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons

Blood Summons

It is a story about the search for the origin of my family’s identity and oral history. I am the daughter of a mestizo mother and an Afro-descendant father. This is a story that also searches for the origin of the wounds and the genealogy of colonial violence.

© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons

This series is a counter-narrative to the politics of mestizaje (racial assimilation), installed by the Mexican nation-state, which erased and whitewashed with the official narrative the violence of my ancestors, their impoverishment, misogyny and racism.

© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons

These photographs are constructed with the oral accounts of my parents in the present but invoking our ancestors. I activate the personal family archive I find and re-historicize intimate stories, creating a constellation of unconnected images that evoke unconscious images linked to memory and the need to belong, to understand struggles and the need to heal.

A letter to the future.

A claim to history.

An act of memory.

© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons
© Koral Carballo, Blood Summons

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