Lorena Gómez Mostajo
Lorena Mostajo is an artist whose photographic practice spans Mexico and the United States and Bolivia. Her current projects are centered on the ways in which vernacular and historical photographs, national imaginaries, global and local economies and tourism intersect. By looking at these relationships, she examines how images of tourism can simultaneously contain and displace commonly known histories of power relationships and ideas about national culture.
Mostajo’s practice also includes the production and dissemination of printed matter. She is the founder of Taller California (the word “taller” in Spanish means workshop,) a small press for artists, writers, and community members from the Tijuana-San Diego area. Taller California’s books are collaborative; the press fosters experimental ways of production and distribution.