Francisco Eme
Le Memoria es un Pájaro / Memory is a Bird
November 12 - December 17, 2022

La Memoria es un Pájaro / Memory is a Bird was an immersive multimedia installation by artist Francisco Eme that includes projected video, photography, sound, and drawing.

After my mother’s passing in 2019, I began to question (even more) my own existence, my artistic practice, my relationship with nature, my family, and death. In the midst of that mourning, I found a photograph of my grandmother, my mother, and two of my brothers in the Sierra de Chicahuaxtla, Oaxaca taken in 1974. Barely visible through the mist, this ghostly image provided a glimpse of memory, a flashback. A gigantic root that comes from those mountains passes from generation to generation and reaches me. It feeds me and pulls me to the ground. Memories of my family, in another time, fly like the flock of crows that pass in front of my house every fall. In the morning they go north, and at night they return to the south. I recorded those same birds on video on a foggy morning and included them in this project. This body of work, employed as a multimedia poem, develops from these symbols: death, birds, family, fog, and circles.

Francisco Eme (b. 1981, Mexico City, MX) is a composer, producer, and multimedia artist. He works mainly with sound, but various disciplines are integrated into his practice. His work has been presented in museums, galleries, and concert halls in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and South America. He has released albums as a soloist and in collaborations and has presented musical projects in various genres - electroacoustic, experimental, and electronic pop music.

Eme lives in San Diego, CA where he serves as the Gallery Director at The FRONT Arte & Cultura, a binational art gallery in the San Diego – Tijuana border territory. He curates art exhibitions, workshops, concerts, and performances focused on the transnational artistic life of the region.


www.franciscoeme.com