“Border Camera is an early project that shows Alejandro's interest in appropriation, technology, land use, and networks of power.

He came across a webcam operated by the US National Park Service, aimed across the border toward the Sierra del Carmen mountain range. Every day for a year, the artist logged on and captured a single frame from the live feed. This self-imposed rule (a photographic action repeated at regular intervals) mirrors the structure he has used in other projects and underlines how almost mathematically rigorous his approach to image making can be.

The screenshot archive records subtle shifts in weather, light, and foliage growth, transforming a surveillance tool into a meditation on landscape, but also observation itself.” — Shana Lopes