José De Sancristóbal is an artist and wannabe translator. He works with the entanglement of narrative and image-making processes. Using photography, film, installation, and writing, he engages with practices of erratic positionality operating inside seemingly closed representation systems. The portrayal of these engagements often takes place at the intersection of the camera’s contradictory condition: between its purported objectivity and its propensity for deceit. Informed by photography’s history as a tool to regulate citizens and their movement, his work muddles established modes of identification by considering them against unmeasurable forms: fiction, memory, translation, and magical realism hinder those devices tasked with supervising self and belonging—such as passport photographs, migration regulations, biographical information, or national borders.

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Co/lapse (Unrevised Edition)

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Given the right conditions, any sound can pass through a wall

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Notes on the translation of El Solitario (or Preface to the English edition)

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Trial (the actors and the translator)

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Evidence

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Untitled translation exercise

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Fabrications

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Estudio Cinefotográfica Azteca

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Birds dream of singing

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Pond

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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow

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Or untitled

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Memorama

More info

José was born in Mexico in the 90s. He currently lives in the US.
His email is desancristobaljose@gmail.com

José received an MFA from Northwestern University, a BFA from Universidad de Monterrey,
and was a Studio Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.