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“Born to a Guatemalan mother and Mexican father, my familial history is shaped by U.S. “The lens I use for my work is personal,” explains Serrano. With Ice Thugs (2020), her mirrored installation based on targets used by government entities, Serrano considers the practice of border patrol agents emptying water bottles left in the desert for immigrants coming across the southern U.S. Yvette Serrano, Camino Justicia, 2018, photograph. With Camino Justicia, Serrano’s 2018 photograph of that water dispensary at the heart of community life, she signals the relationship between power and natural resources. Primarily using photography, sculpture, and printed materials, the artist trains her eye on the Southwest, countering romanticized notions of the desert that fail to reflect historical and contemporary inequities. This insight fuels her creative explorations of social justice and the landscape. Making the drive with her parents to get water from a giant tank located near a county jail south of Santa Fe on Highway 14, Serrano began to think about water as a scarce resource. “It meant a complete change in my relationship to water,” she recalls. Yvette Serrano, Ice Thugs, 2020, laser-engraved acrylic mirror, dirt, bullet shells, 27 x 17.5 in.īorn and raised in New Mexico, multidisciplinary artist Yvette Serrano moved with her family to a rural area near Santa Fe when she was just nine or ten years old. Yvette Serrano’s multimedia practice is informed by her deeply rooted understanding of water as a precious resource in the American Southwest. Wendy Kveck Stages the Feminine at ASAP in Las Vegas.Cannupa Hanska Luger: Reunion Reckons With Annihilation While Dreaming of the Future.

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