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Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza

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Río Pánuco 203, int. 6., Mexico City, Mexico
Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza (Guadalajara, México, 1982) is a writer and author of poetry books such as Datsun, Catnip and Jaws [Tiburón]. The latter was awarded with the National Prize of Poetry Ignacio Manuel Altamirano in 2015. She studied Spanish Literature in the University of Guadalajara and the University of Rennes II in Upper Brittany. Some of her poems has been published in the US, France, Germany and Australia. Currently she is member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores in México.

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They Live by the Mountains


Ghost-writing about invisible labour

They Live by the Mountains


Ghost-writing about invisible labour
I am the ghost-writer of a worker cleaning houses in Sweden.
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Type of project
  • Systemic changes

A cleaning worker takes care of the homes of their employers and is responsible of their property but the worker doesn't know their employees, and viceversa: a worker in a ghost-house, ghost labour for the householders.

A ghost-writer, now visible, will write fiction and poetry from the ethnographic material compiled by the cleaning worker over a year of working in middle and upper class neighbourhoods in Sweden - a country notable for their egalitarian culture while income inequality keeps rising at one of the fastest rates in EU.

This text can contribute to the field of architecture by offering a class perspective from the point of view of a worker with a deep, material and direct relation to the caring of domestic spaces belonging to a new money class in contemporary Sweden.

The cleaning worker wishes to remain invisible.

They Live by the Mountains


Ghost-writing about invisible labour

They Live by the Mountains


Ghost-writing about invisible labour
I am the ghost-writer of a worker cleaning houses in Sweden.
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

A cleaning worker takes care of the homes of their employers and is responsible of their property but the worker doesn't know their employees, and viceversa: a worker in a ghost-house, ghost labour for the householders.

A ghost-writer, now visible, will write fiction and poetry from the ethnographic material compiled by the cleaning worker over a year of working in middle and upper class neighbourhoods in Sweden - a country notable for their egalitarian culture while income inequality keeps rising at one of the fastest rates in EU.

This text can contribute to the field of architecture by offering a class perspective from the point of view of a worker with a deep, material and direct relation to the caring of domestic spaces belonging to a new money class in contemporary Sweden.

The cleaning worker wishes to remain invisible.

Idea by

Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza
Río Pánuco 203, int. 6.
Mexico City
Mexico
Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza (Guadalajara, México, 1982) is a writer and author of poetry books such as Datsun, Catnip and Jaws [Tiburón]. The latter was awarded with the National Prize of Poetry Ignacio Manuel Altamirano in 2015. She studied Spanish Literature in the University of Guadalajara and the University of Rennes II in Upper Brittany. Some of her poems has been published in the US, France, Germany and Australia. Currently she is member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores in México.
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