Biography:
Born in Mexico City in 1968. Gerardo holds a B.F.A. on Product Design and studied Photography in Mexico City. Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores since 2004 (National System of Creators). Grant holder from the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada) in 2001 and 2003. Received the 1996-1997 fellowship from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts. He won the XI Photography Biennial in Mexico (2004).
Among his solo exhibitions, “De cuerpo ausente en paraje desconocido” at La Mar de Musicas (Spain 2007), “De cuerpo presente” at Huesca Imagen (Spain, 2004), “De la pintura” at Fototeca Nacional (Mexico, 2003) and "Transmigración" at Centro de la Imagen (1999).
His work has been exhibited and published internationally and appears in various collections, including the Kiyosato Museum of Photography (Japan); Museum of Fine Arts MFAH (Houston), Museet fot Fotokunst (Denmark), SFCAMERAWORKS (San Francisco); Wittliff Collection of Southwestern & Mexican Photography (Texas), Centro de la Imagen (Mexico), Fototeca Nacional del INAH (Pachuca, Mexico), Museo del Carmen (Mexico), Fototeca Lorenzo Becerril (Puebla, Mexico), Fundación Cultural Omnilife (Guadalajara), Centro de Arte Moderno (Guadalajara) and Fábrica de Imágenes (Morelia, Mexico).
Statement:
In the search for an inner spiritual knowledge, I began creating "worship refuges" in front of the camera. In this process I am understanding my human essence, because all my images have been deeply influenced unconsciously by my own spiritual elements: symbolic, psychological, affective, etc; resulting places for meditation and prayer. My intention is to surpass and modify an existent reality, where I pretend to create my own cosmology with visions, presages, myths, legends, taboos and why not my own gods; staging this elements in an ethereal atmosphere, creating a world apart, a world I wish to live in; where there is no need for that obsessive idea of a logic universe that has made so mundane this end of century.
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