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.
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.
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.
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.
