Anti-Panóptico

Servidor Local presents Anti-Panóptico in collaboration with Analog Typologies Press, an exhibition curated by Inés Vachez featuring photographs by: Camila Ayala Benabib, Juan Pablo Sandoval, Isabel Palomar, Florencia Cicchini, Álvaro Núñez Igartúa, Manuel Carmena Zazo, Andrea Núñez, Antonella López, and Nicole Thyssen Tishman.

The exhibition is the result of the homonymous editorial project developed throughout 2025 and driven by Analog Typologies Press— a publishing initiative focused on visual anthropology and urban research— with the aim of promoting personal, focused, diverse, and liberating visions of the spaces we inhabit, created by twelve emerging photographers. The concept of the panopticon refers to a mechanism of power that seeks to control people through constant surveillance, even when they are not being watched. This project proposes the opposite of a panopticon, approaching reality through its infinite points of view.

The show includes nine of the twelve perspectives that, in the curator’s words, “reclaim the right to partiality, to absence, and to what remains outside the field of vision (…) Here, the viewer does not occupy the position of the watcher, but that of one who moves, observes, doubts, and accepts not understanding everything. In this way, Anti-Panóptico explores the possibility of unlearning the dominant and hegemonic gaze. Through this gesture, a political space opens up: focused vision as a form of resistance.”

Inés Vachez

Urban researcher, writer, and photographer. She holds a master’s degree in Urban Typologies from the Universidad Técnica de Berlín and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from ITESO. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Social and Political Anthropology at FLACSO Argentina. Her research projects, lectures, exhibitions, and urban interventions move across themes of gender and public space, forced migration, gentrification, and collective memory.

In 2021, she founded the urban research and visual anthropology studio Analog Typologies, whose publications can be found in several cities across Mexico, the United States, India, Argentina, and Europe. In 2022, she received support from PECDA through Mexico’s Secretaría de Cultura for the publication of her first book: Arquitectura de Remesas: La transformación de un pueblo mexicano.

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