Vientre (La Mixteca, Oaxaca, 2013–2018) delves into the links and contrasts between beauty and cruelty, between the various facets of appetite, in the context of the goat slaughter, where the living dead, pain and affection occur in the same instant and in the same territory. Here is a land that is still walked, beaten and sown; the roots intermingle and quarrel between the past and a new time. Vientre is that cave, that lair where everything is unleashed, where we return, a damp home where people and animals cohabit and share as much as habit, a field that will soon be another. The desert advances, survival changes form as bodies do. And while they dry in the sun, the photographer immerses herself and waits for the squeal, for movement and stillness in the open air, under tile or cane, so close to the limits of being, the extremes raw.