The work of the Mexican artist Cristóbal Ascencio explores a parent-child relationship filled with loss, silence, death and reconciliation.
Ascencio’s father died when he was 15, but he was not told that it was suicide until he was 30. It was then that he began to revisit the images, places and memories that were left to him. His father, Margarito, a gardener by profession, wrote a farewell letter in which in addition to asking for forgiveness he asked Cristóbal to contact him.
Ascencio revisits his family archive and the last garden where his father worked using various digital strategies for altering the images. He intervenes in the code that makes up his personal photographs and deconstructs the images and narratives associated with them using a glitch or digital error as a tool. At the same time, a three-dimensional representation of the garden using photogrammetry addresses issues related to the plasticity of memory, represented in the plants that his father grew, which are still alive today.