
Rules for Fighting
- Publisher
- Witty Books / Images Vevey
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 979-12-80177-15-5
- Specifications
- Sewn binding
15 x 20.5 cm
232 pages
Design by Paola Jiménez Quispe
Shortlisted, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2022, First PhotoBook
In February 1998 a businessman was murdered in Lima. He was the artist's father, and she was five years old. Her family was shocked and did not speak about it, so she grew up with questions and with an urge to build a relationship with him. The work assembles what she was able to find: objects her mother had kept, a police document explaining why and how he was killed, a plastic bag of undeveloped rolls from which she printed 706 images, a press picture of the murder traced in a newspaper archive, videotapes of a family trip made before she was born, and a notebook he wrote before marrying. It is a journey towards a father and a reflection on how memory works, on remembering and forgetting, on sudden loss.