Alejandra Aragón
Chavalxs
Chavalxs is a collaborative community based artistic project which focuses on creating spaces of reflection through photography to confront and reconstruct narratives and therefore the realities of young people from rural areas near the border between Mexico and the U.S.
Contributor Work
Photo courtesy of Alejandra Aragón.
Contributor Profile
Alejandra Aragón (1983) is from Cd. Juárez, Mexico. Through a multidisciplinary process using audiovisual media, archives, objects, performative and collaborative strategies, her work explores the intersections between territory, body, representation and identity: Her intention is to turn memory into a living archive that amplifies our voice through time and help resist the realities of late capitalism. She was part of the Photography Seminar of the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City in 2017 and received the Mexican FONCA young creators grant in 2018. She is a member of the Joop Swart Master Class 2020, nominated for the Oskar Barnack award in 2021. She was awarded the Border Narrative Change Grant by NALAC in 2021. She was the winner of the first Latin American award from the Sony World Photography Awards 2022, the same year she entered the National System of Creators of Mexico.