Textile, digital collage, performance, film, 2023
Being from the border and seeing these atrocities against people and children. While having the privilege to cross whenever I want, how can I live with myself? But is crossing every day and waiting for hours like my family just to work and have a better life much of a privilege? Am I ever "American" enough even by having a double nationality? Does the pain ever really go away in our own land? ...
Part 2 of this piece was a live performance/protest, documented in film, in front of the Art Institute of Chicago. I was protesting the buoys in the Rio Grande River. It was important to protest in front of a large institution because institutions are known to be very colonial spaces and even taking space in it as a person of color is a form of protest.
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![Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/13edae5d-f68c-45f6-b7bc-c142db642c3e/2007e74e-04fb-4d83-b604-f1fe7f31ba34_rw_1200.jpg?h=4c17b14f4b2dd20ec68beec82fc23813)
Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago
![Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/13edae5d-f68c-45f6-b7bc-c142db642c3e/fe2b34a5-51c1-45cf-9489-c2ea8b08cc9f_rw_1200.jpg?h=3ff827ac658809ae3bfbce650cbd6afd)
Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago
![Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/13edae5d-f68c-45f6-b7bc-c142db642c3e/3c1a13f5-2397-4fc9-a5c5-48bf5d058d06_rw_1200.jpg?h=c9a6cca889d8f1306d3b4855ca2b7f66)
Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago
![Film Polaroid Collage of Performance in front of the Art Institute of Chicago](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/13edae5d-f68c-45f6-b7bc-c142db642c3e/bdd7f4e2-eaf2-4531-a446-21e8d08aeab0_rw_1920.jpg?h=ed9a752e7d319ed45989ce050fe1426e)