Ladron roba ladron/To Rob a Thief

To rob a thief is a series composed of drawings that are inspired, appropriated or even lifted off of the work of Weegee (Arthur Feelig). His photographs appeared in different New York newspapers throughout the 1930’s and 1940’s. This series is an act of piracy. And it is motivated by my wish to homage the work of a great artist and, also, by my taste for fabulation. This is mostly represented by the inclusion of small fictions: anachronisms, self portraits and other artifacts that are not present in the originals. I believe my piracy of Weege’s work has certain affinities with his own practices, which is why I only work with those images of his in which the subject did not want his image to be taken.