Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado is a project coordinated by Jessica Sevilla, Mayté Miranda, and Rosela del Bosque that has worked in close collaboration with Enero y Abril since 2021, Leslie García since 2020, Minoru Kiyota, and recently with Hoshi André Ramirez. The collective was formed in 2020 in Mexicali by conducting fieldwork and documental research for a year before launching to the public in 2021.

Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado is a collaborative project that explores the relationships between people, ecosystems, settlements, and water in the Colorado River deltaic region. It seeks to produce, collect, and edit documental registers, emphasizing the family archive, and investigate how memory is constructed through contingent relationships with water. It uses the artistic field to explore different experiences of territory and landscape; from the affections, fiction, and experimentation; considering the asymmetrical tensions that operate in Mexicali and the US/Mexico border at geopolitical, institutional, and corporal scales. The project is based in Mexicali, Mexico, and has been expanding since its launch in 2021. It began as an Open call and is now a platform for artistic research projects, curatorial work, and the intersection between contemporary art, ecological crisis, and community-building. Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado consists of various interrelated activities: we launch open calls, archive, organize walks, public events, talks, and workshops, curate exhibitions, and publish zines. We work with local and international institutions, universities, collectives, researchers, and artists.is a growing community archive that seeks to gather, give visibility, and rewrite the intimate stories of our human-river relationship— primarily but not exclusively, in the delta region.

The project launched in 2020 with an ongoing open call for family images, fiction, and oralities on the deltaic region of the Colorado River. 

If you have any archive, story, or memory to share, please send your materials to the email: archivofamiliardelriocolorado@gmail.com