Mictlán is an experimental gem that takes shape as an original artist's book, printed in a signed edition limited to 100 copies and presented in a case of amate paper. Its body is made up of nine folded sheets, each on a different type of paper (kraft, butter paper, "revolución", "educación", bond, estraza, grey board, among others), with graphic design by Ramon Pez. In his exploration of photography in connection with values of truth and memory, Joan Fontcuberta has been developing in recent years the project Trauma, a poetic and conceptual journey diving into historical photographic archives. He is interested in images in a traumatic state: sick images, damaged by humidity, mould or microorganisms, at the last gasp of representation and reduced to ghostly traces in which memory falters, their link to reality broken, their visual information lost and their condition as documents vanishing. In 2019 Fontcuberta went to a selection of Mexican archives and made more than a thousand shots from rickety glass negatives. In this beautiful, tragic and sombre Mexican suite, flashes of the country's history still appear: the Revolution, dramatic milestones, public figures, social and family life. The set of these graphic records ranges from portraits of Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata and executions to weddings, baptisms and identity pictures, from folklore and traditions to landscape and monumental heritage.