Without documentary efforts, Yoshua presents a group of videos that, on the one hand, become one of the starkest ways to express the reality of men who work as police officers in Mexico City. However, by making his presence behind the camera evident, this work also makes us reflect on power relations and the various conflicts in Mexico City. But, above all, by openly manipulating different sides of the reality that is going to be recorded, but always working with real police officers, these videos make us question the nature of the medium. By pointing to video itself as a form of expression, the artist adds a questioning to the media, to the way in which reality can be edited to satisfaction, to the way in which we live a media reality, which tries to impose itself above real life for the benefit of power groups. In this way, these videos also operate as mirrors that make us question our own reality.
Oríllese a la orilla, was presented for the first time at the Image Center from March 23 to May 8, 2000. Curatorial text by Fernando Gálvez only available in Spanish.