Born in Mexico City, 1981
Lives and works in Mexico City
Since the late nineties, the young Mexican artist has been establishing a relationship with photography in his work. With a regard for the aesthetics and the conceptual practices of the sixties and seventies, Iñaki Bonillas has been gradually isolating the constituent elements of photography and connecting them with other procedures. In 2003 Iñaki Bonillas started introducing the vast photo archives of his grandfather, J.R. Plaza, into his work. He linked elements together that were a priori incompatible: on the one hand a personal, biographical narrative that consists of private anecdotes and emotions, and on the other a quasi-scientific element of compilation, classifying and archiving.