“Ruins are the secret soul of all construction.”

R. SMITHSON, Conference, 1972

La Playa is an abandoned hotel located in Ciudad Juárez, México; where the Mexican Federal Police established its headquarters during a period of violence experienced in this city from the last years.

La fotografía parece sellar e informar de una realidad, pero a mi parecer siempre la sobrepasa. En este proyecto, no se trata solamente de una historia o de una búsqueda documental, se trata de dar forma a un compromiso poético, político y social.

Photography informs us about a reality, but it seems to me that it actually exceeds it. This project is not only about telling a story or a documentary research, it's also a poetic, political and social commitment.

There are 123 rooms in La Playa, they'll look like they were the same room, but at the same time they´re all different..

All of these rooms are like small theaters where an archeological-theatrical representation of reality becomes alive. The reality of the city and its story, the reality of civilization itself and what remains of it. The remains of our own existence.

From my own perspective, Ciudad Juárez has become a city filled with mythologies: its borders, a city that once was a great and glamorous destination for evil movie stars, a reference of violence and femicide, Ciudad Juárez is nobody's land.

Ciudad Juarez doesn't only portrait the Mexican reality, it also speaks about a larger scenario of global politics and economics, the reality of a changing and unequal society.