Cristóbal Ascencio MX, b. 1988
Cristóbal Ascencio holds degrees in Audiovisual Media from the University of Audiovisual Media (CAAV) in Jalisco (Mexico), in 2013, and a Master’s in Contemporary Photography from EFTI in Madrid (Spain), in 2022. He was selected for Foam Talent 2024-25 and featured in BJP’s «Ones to Watch 2022». His work has been exhibited at Foam Amsterdam, PhotoEspaña, and Les Rencontres d’Arles. His recent projects include his photobook «Las flores mueren dos veces» (Editorial Dispara, 2024) and a solo exhibition at Mexico’s Cultural Institute in Spain (2025). His project Las flores mueren dos veces has received wide international recognition, being exhibited at PhotoEspaña (2024), Las Cigarreras Alicante (2024), and various international festivals. This work earned him the Art Photo Bcn Award, first prize at the Panoramic Festival, and inclusion in the British Journal of Photography’s prestigious “Ones to Watch 2022” list.
About La flores mueren dos veces , 2021-2024
Las Flores mueren dos veces is a project that explores a parent-child relationship filled with loss, silence, death, life, and reconciliation. Cristóbal Ascencio’s father died when he was 15, but he was not told it was a suicide until he turned 30; it was then that he started to revisit the images, places, and memories that were left behind. Revisiting his family archive and the last garden where his father worked, he manipulates the structural data of photographs through glitches to create images that act as metaphors for “corrupted memories.” The farewell letter left by his father Margarito, a gardener by profession, «Forgive me and communicate with me» became a point of departure. A three-dimensional representation of the garden using photogrammetry addresses the plasticity of memory, embodied by plants his father grew that are still alive today.