Installations
Mexican Cultural Institute, 2018
They Silence us
I created an immersive Day of the Dead installation in 2018 at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC. The piece, They Silenced Us, was dedicated to the femicide victims in Mexico using elements found in traditional Day of the Dead altars (ofrendas). In addition to other forms of violence, the ratio of homicides targeting women increased from 10 – 13% between 1990 and 2020.
11 women are killed in Mexico daily just for being women
The ships were hand made from paper mache keeping with material typically used for celebratory pinatas. These ships held hand-painted and hand embellished sugar skulls over a bed of black beans and rice creating ¨grecas¨, a traditional mesoamerican design.
kATZEN aRT cENTER, 2016
i WANT TO fLY (pAPER aIRPLANES)
I come from a large family who have, across the years, lived across the globe. I created large-scale paper airplanes from paper mache to serve as an apropos allegory about the global realities of migration, considering the number of Latin Americans one or two generations removed from earlier family migrations from Europe, Africa, and Asia.
These planes were part of a show of immigrants in the DC Metro area titled The Looking Glass Artist Immigrants of Washington.