¿a quién disparan? (Who Are They Shooting At?), 2021, was part of the publication "El epistolario del mañana" by Otro Espacio.

¿a quién disparan? is a series of photographs in collaboration with Pistor Orendain, that are part of an interspecies art project in collaboration with bees, titled Mujer Apis. Through various media, performance, sculpture, video, sound, and photography, Mujer Apis sparks intimate and hopeful openings toward multispecies presence and responsibility, encouraging reflection on the interrelations that shape and sustain our world.

Last year, during Covid-19 lockdown, I decided to invite a queen bee to establish her colony in my home—her new home. Since then, the bees and I have created together, exploring the possibility of a story of alliances and what anthropologist Anna Tsing (2015) calls “collaborative survival.”

The photographic series titled ¿a quién disparan? draws from a line in the poem The Swarm by Sylvia Plath. The poet also tended to a beehive, and inspired by urban beekeeping, wrote her famous bee poem sequence just weeks before her death. Her verses explore themes such as dominant patriarchal power, violence, collectivity, the role of women, and the care and dialogue with nature.

¿a quién disparan? is a provocation. Nearly sixty years after they were written, Sylvia Plath’s verses still sting the fabric of time.
Today, we continue to shoot at life, at female bodies, and at the species that share and sustain Mother Earth.