The bastard son of the Revolution
2025 - on going
Throughout the Development Stabilizing time, better known as the Mexican Miracle (1940–1970), Mexico experienced sustained economic growth as the State took a paternalistic role in providing basic services and rights such as education, healthcare, and housing. In this period, the ideals of the traditional family were reinforced: a father who provides, a mother devoted to the house and childcare, and children as the promises of future. These ideals were deeply intertwined with the national discourse of the old revolutionary era, which glorified the values of the working man and promoted obedience as a virtue.
The ideals of Mexican men were largely a construction designed by the main political parties of the country (the National Revolutionary Party, the Party of the Mexican Revolution, and the Institutional Revolutionary Party) to create a national ethos: a hardworking man, often alcoholic, with two families (the "casa chica" and the "casa grande"). My grandfather, the illegitimate son of Carlos Greene, a Revolutionary General from Tabasco, embodies the contradictions of this narrative: a lineage defined by absence and silence, by fractures in a structure presented to us as ideal. This project reclaims appearances to inhabit shadows and hollow spaces, exploring fiction's critical potential as a tool for configuring scenes of dispute over the common, challenging the established order and its identificatory logics.
Project in progress with the support of the Jóvenes Creadores grant from the National System for Culture and the Arts, 2025 period.
