His Artistic research centers on tensions between document and fiction, family archives and national stories, body presentation and public life. He trained at the Centro de la Imagen’s photographic production seminar as well as at the photo-essay program at Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Fototecas. He is a permanent collaborator at Visual AIDS NY and a founding member of CEPA, a support and artistic expression network for people living with HIV in Tlaxcala. He has exhibited at the Musei d’Arte Contemporani de Barcelona; the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cuenca, Spain; the Museo de la Ciudad de México; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and New York’s New Museum. He received the jury prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México as well as the Premio Estatal de Artes Visuales de Tlaxcala prize. Bordello also garnered a “Jóvenes Creadores” grant from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) in 2016; a 2015 support from the Apoyo a las Culturas Municipales y Comunitarias program as well as from the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico, in 2013; plus a 2011 scholarship from FONCA’s Programa de Fomento y Coinversiones Culturales. 

Amiqui / Sequía, 2022
15 min.

Similar to how the past gets projected onto the future, this piece offers a dual projection: succession and simultaneity—the fusion of an image with those after and next to it, a link between the previous and the following. One part of the piece, Amiqui (which in the Nahuatl language means “to be thirsty”) focuses on the desire to control water in the Preclassic period when the city of Xochitecatl–Cacaxtla was created at the center of the lagoons and rivers that afforded its cultural proliferation. The other part of the piece, Drought, looks at contemporary times. We cannot change the legacy of landscape erosion: lost bodies like the Zahuapan River, which still traverses the city; the Atlihuetzia waterfall, which is now a drain; and the Acuitlapilco lagoon, a stop-off for pelicans that is now drying up. Now, that legacy has a new chapter: a drought caused soft-drink companies and factories.