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Existo Porque Resisto

Existo Porque Resisto

Francisco Mata Rosas

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It seems like a mantra: build, destroy, rebuild, deconstruct, and start again. For the past 500 years, ever since the fall of Cuauhtémoc, this always-utopian city has been built by layering one vision over another, creating a chaos, a city of cities, an unending and unfinished process, a promised land. I exist because I resist could be its statement of principles.

The overcrowding here is of every kind, but especially visual. We are hoarders not only of things but also of history. Cyclically, we try to get rid of what "no longer works" to build something new, only to end up adding another layer. In this city, there is room for everyone and everything. We can always add a second floor until the next earthquake brings it down. With white paint, we create another lane on the so-called expressways; we build corporate offices on top of a garbage dump. Here, recycling isn't a trendy attitude; it's a necessity and a tradition. We recycle cultures, origins, destinies, dreams, and nightmares.

The city is too much—its numbers seem exaggerated, and its images even more so. Crowds and clutter define it. It is overwhelming, voluptuous, confusing, indecipherable, and indefinable. Its vast energy can become depressing; the eyes and other senses never find rest. You hear the smells, you smell the sounds, you touch the images. Living here seems absurd, but walking through it gives it meaning.

This project was made possible with the support of the National System of Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores) of FONCA, 2018-2021.

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Edition of 500
Size: 17×24 cm
64 pages on Propalmate paper, 150 gr
16 pages on Parchment paper, 90 gr
Photography and Text: Francisco Mata Rosas
Editing: Francisco Mata Rosas, Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo
Design: Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, Mireya Guerrero Cercos
Printing and Binding: Matiz Taller Editorial, Manizales
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About — RAYA EDITORIAL is especially focused on thinking, editing, designing, and publishing photobooks. "A photobook is read like a novel, observed like a movie," says Horacio Fernández. It is in the turning of the pages that the photos carry the weight of the narrative. The reader is presented with the possibility of reading a story through images and the interplay they can create together: rhythms, pauses, dialogues, opposites, action-reaction, surprises, climaxes, changes in temperature, temporality, color, and emotions. At RAYA EDITORIAL, we are interested in understanding the photobook as a book-object-experience, where the material, texture, forms, and layers create a cohesive whole that responds to the unique universe of each project. This is why the editing and design work is done collectively and with the participation of the authors in collaborative sessions, which we have called EDITING TABLES.

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