Talked to @anothermagazine and @maddiehowardnyc about my work, life and influence of Latino American culture and ofcourse Fútbol y el Amor. In our conversation I touched upon my constant and slow process of finding a sense of home, which has been relived after meeting everyone at MADISON.
Mil gracias @maddiehowardnyc for such a great article and lovely words encapsuling a great conversation we had over a coffee a warm morning, i left that coffee shop very happy of sharing.
Link to the full article in my bio ❤️
Today on the print edition of the @nytimes
All the Shelter a City School Can Provide for the @nytimes@nytopinion amazing story by @bliss_broyard interpreted and reporting by @marianamtzbarba
The incredible journey of the Rodriguez family from Venezuela to the US, their resilience in seeking a new home, and the importance of education in finding stability.
Thank you @jackiecbates for the assignment, Sara Barrett for your edit y gracias a Roberto, Mary, Kenny, Keymar and Andres por abrir las puertas de su familia y su historia over the past month. This assignment quickly became very personal and emotional as my mother and I once sought asylum 14 years ago. Many feelings and forgotten memories came back from the time we first arrived in this country from Colombia
Forever grateful @jackiecbates
Do take the time to read the full article.
Link in bio to full story.
Olvido pa’ Recordar (forget to remember) featured by @bjp1854@dalia.aldu i sat to chat with Dalia for an hour to talk about the work, my life and experience in and out of photography, my process and journey up until here. It was heartwarming conversations where I shared my motivations, ideas and convictions.
Please do read the full article (link in bio) it is a beautiful written piece where Dalia capture the essence of my work and of what I hope to express and portray. Thank you thank you Dalia
Para mi mamá: Se que vas a leer esto, tu decision fue la correcta. No te equivocaste. Te Amo mucho.
MADISON - Bushwick, Nueva York (2021 -2025)
Madison is a space existing outside the spectacle, glittering fashion, and commercial infrastructures of fútbol, where the working class organizes through mutual aid for the well-being of their Latino American community in Brooklyn.
Fútbol, was is and should be more. Fútbol as a tool, one that brings us together. A network of care in the form of independent support systems built through the act of play, existing outside hierarchies and structures of power and self center rhetorics.
El Rio Piedras in Alvarado, Tolima. The river Sandra Huertas my mother used to go with my grandfather as a child. Family and friends would gather to have a day swimming, sharing and cooking sancocho. Now, nobody of my family goes.
New website is now up! Designed by @amestica_
Thanks to @amestica_ who designed it and help me conceptualize what the site could be and do. Through many conversations we focused on how relevant it was to emphasize my processes and the materiality of my work, while communicating my practice, commissioned and publications work in a cohesive and harmonious way.
The homepage emerges from my archive of test strips fragments I’ve been obsessively holding onto after printing sessions now reactivated as something interactive, where they can be layered and rearranged. One of the brilliant ideas Valentina came up with!
Mateoarciniegas.com
MADISON is a four year project about a group of friends from Latin America in Bushwick who build belonging through fútbol, music, and culture in Brooklyn.
Giving relevance to the mundane and repetition of rituals and how these become acts of care, resistance, and resilience in the face of migration and impermanence.
This place thought out, planned, and activated by a group of friends. It has been a nourishing anchor of belonging for a group of Latino american men and their families in the midst of the perplexity and stupefaction of migrating and settling in the north.
Is fútbol a sport… or a religion?
From fans performing rituals and asking for divine favors to players and their cábalas, faith shows up on and off the pitch across Latin America.
Are you familiar with any of this? ⚽️🙏🏽 Tell us in comments +read the full piece at the link in bio.
The First Colombian Rockstar is a 20-page publication about the first true superstar of Colombian fútbol, Faustino Hernán Asprilla Hinestroza, better known as El Tino Asprilla.
In 1992, he disrupted the transfer market by moving from Atlético Nacional to Parma for a reported $10.9 million fee, becoming the highest-paid Colombian footballer at the time. He was among the first to achieve global superstar status, achieving worldwide success and notoriety both in fútbol, and beyond.
His career extended across Italy, England, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. A heartbreaker, a legend, a pioneer of South American fútbol, regarded by many as one of the greatest forwards of all time.
Material gathered from internet public archives that illustrated his career and life in and out of futbol.
This publication is dedicated to him, una estrella, un icono, un mostro! @eltinoasprilla
Gracias Tino por existir!
Cover: Gold 120 gr
Body: Holmen Vintage 70gr
