Exhibit: Underlying Borders

Underlying Borders brings together the work of artists with their own migrant experience between Mexico and the United States. They work from perspectives that seek to reconfigure and blur borders and boundaries, in a game of tension between locations and relocations.

The participating artists explore concepts related to institutionalized notions such as identity, gender, or nationality. Through their work, the artists pretend that these limits or boundaries, manifested as geographic distances or through the act of inhabiting the body or memory, are understood as zones of transition.

Participating Artists
Felipe Baeza
Through a convergence of interest in migration, queerness anthropology through a syncretic use of both collage and printmaking Felipe Baeza explores ideas about the migrant fugitive body. His work utilizes art as a tool to create political spaces. Baeza reconstructs new imaginaries of neither here nor there, allowing the fugitive body to make use of imagination, as a tool for liberation to transcend circumstances. His most recent practice investigates how memory, migration and displacement work to create a state of hybridity and “fugitivity.” Primarily working on paper and incorporating different techniques via collage and decollage, he aims to render visible those bodies and histories that have been rendered invisible and have disappeared.

Gerardo Camargo
His practice is rooted in the concepts of germination and fluctuation, depending on the emergence that comes through a repetitive act such as the act of walking, observing, accumulating, and classifying. He is interested in addressing the relationship of abstract processes of construction-destruction present in the global events and structures that are found in the accumulation of small gestures of everyday human behavior and circumstances. He generally treats found objects as artifacts that, being physical carriers of intrinsic meanings and metaphors, provide him with an intimate information that recontextualizes in broader discourses, generating an ambiguous correlation between urban and domestic environments.

Irene Clouthier
Her recent sculptural work is an exploration on the complexity of human and couples’ relationships, love, despair, disappointment, loneliness and feelings of human condition. She began this exploration after going through divorce and experimenting certain duality and confusion, then it unfolded onto exploring just the words, its meaning, and how opposites are also connected. Feelings are always connected, there cannot be one feeling without the other one, to make connections about the aspiration or idealization of the opposites.

Alison Lee Schroeder
Influenced by the three countries and cultures to which she belongs, her work speaks of the stereotypes that operate in the interpretation of what is the other and what is oneself. Using parody and seemingly innocent humor, she invites us to rethink our own concepts of belonging, identity, and time.

Marela Zacarias
Working with a labor-intensive process that merges sculpture with painting, Marela Zacarias fabricates forms out of wire screening attached to wooden supports or found objects to which she applies layers of plaster to create undulating forms. Through sanding, polishing, and painting, she creates sculptures with the quality of fabric, filled with movement and expressive quality. She then paints the sculptures with original patterns and geometric abstract shapes that are inspired by her research. Her work is characterized by an interest in site specificity, socially committed history and current events.

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