Image-making is Marisol’s channel to make visible the tension between truth and fiction, the tight relationship between what a photograph creates and the (sur)real it comes from.

In her book "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love," Bell Hooks argues that the traditional definition of masculinity centres around dominance, control, and the suppression of emotions. Mendez’s ‘Padre’ aims to explore the construction of masculinity from a feminine perspective, focusing on deconstructing Latin America notions of machismo.