fotografía por Ana González Mote
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extracto de “Sirena con patas II” de Liliana Felipe.
Si supiera lo que dicen las ballenas, ya te lo habría dicho. Si supiera lo que cantan las ballenas, pero no lo sé. Te voy a decir lo que pueda… Soy mamífera. Los acuarios me dan una tristeza infinita y el mar un miedo horroroso. Salgo a respirar solo de vez en cuando. Tengo ideas enormes pero solo por el tamaño de mi cerebro. Me han atacado muchas veces, pero herido de muerte solo una. He navegado mares incomprensibles, y compongo y canto canciones que tampoco entiendo. No sé dónde acaba el azul del mar y comienza el azul del cielo.
If I only knew what the whales say, I would have already told you. If I just knew what the whales sing, but I don’t know. I am going to tell you what I can… I am I am a mammal. The aquariums give me infinite sadness and the sea a horrible fear. I go out to breathe only once in a while. I have huge ideas only because of the size of my brain. I have been attacked many times but I was about to die only once. I have sailed incomprehensible seas and I compose and sing songs that I don’t really understand. I don’t know where the blue of the sea ends and where the blue of the sky starts.
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Solo & collective exhibitions. (2019- 2024)
Into the thick of it
curated by Bella Varela
MASS Gallery, Austin, Texas - U.S.
Soy de aquí
curated by Joshua Duttweiler and Alexandria Canchola
Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas – U.S.
Borderwaters
curated by Elizabeth Hawley
Alabama Contemporary, Mobile Alabama – U.S.
Category is: Beyond the Currencies of Latinx Art
curated by Pico del Hierro- Villa
El Chante: Casa de Cultura, Albuquerque, NM – U.S.
Hogar, Sweet Hogar
curated by Christian Pardo Cárdenas
Azul Arena, Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua – México
Maquila Blues
curated by Laurie Mckenna
Central School Project, Bisbee, Arizona – U.S.
Soy de Tejas
curated by Rigoberto Luna
Centro de Artes, San Antonio, Texas – U.S.
Fronteras
curated by Ximena Alarcón
Galería Casa Mérida, Ciudad de México – México
La Frontera- The Border
organized by Guggenheim Gallery
Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA – U.S.
Exhilios del imaginario
curated by Itzel Aguilera and Jaime Bailléres
Museo de Arte de Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua - México
Ghostly Demacrations
curated by Kevin Burns
Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, Texas – U.S.
CuerposUnidos
curated by Jose Villalobos and Michael Anthony Garcia
The Museum of Human Achivement, Austin, Texas – U.S.
Transborder Biennial
curated by Gilberto Vicario and Carlos E. Palacios
EPMA and MACJ, Cd. Juárez / El Paso – México and U.S.
Reflexiones de luz
curated by Claudia Luz Vega
Film Club Café, Estado de México – México
Tercer Coloquio de Estudios Migratorios
organized by Seminario de Estudios Migratorios UNAM
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Ciudad de México – México
About my work.
Ingrid Leyva: La estética de la resistencia
por Dr. Selfa Chew para Cuadernos Fronterizos
Soy de Tejas: Home as open permeable itinerant and metaphysical?
by JD Pluecker for Southwest Contemporary
100 Ways to draw a line
by Michael Agresta for Texas Observer
La frontera bajo la mirada de Ingrid Leyva
por Veronica Martinez para La Verdad Juárez
Collaborations.
co-written essay with Ana González Mote.
Soy una planta! no un ser humano!, Post(s) Journal
Migración, activismo y documentación
Memorias del Silencio
Altar virtual de Ann Pittman
What does it mean to be Latino? at Harper’s Magazine (printed)
Uncaged Art: Artwork by Unaccompanied Minors Detained at the Texas Border
Plan for the rebirth of Duranguito / A year after the bulldozers
De Juárez a Bellas Artes: así recibieron los mexicanos las cenizas de Juan Gabriel
Migración 2.0
Video collaborations
Uncaged Art: Artwork by Unaccompanied Minors Detained at the Texas Border
talks & interviews.
Ingrid Leyva: Mexican Shoppers
Fincar correspondencias
Hyperlocal Visions
collections.
Rio Grande Historical Collections
El Paso Museum of Art
interviews for Deep Red Press.
Violette Bule
Mónica Alcázar-Duarte: I AM NOT DATA
Encuadrando fotografías conceptualmente
Karla Guerrero: Imagen Poética
contact -> retratohechoamano@gmail.com