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A suite of 16 screen prints, each 21” wide x 22.5” tall printed on Stonehenge Pearl Grey. Edition of 10 with 2 artist proofs and 2 printers proofs. Printed by Julia Samuels.
La Raza Cósmica 20XX presents a mythical re-interpretation of Jose Vasconcelos’ mestizo identity theory, La Raza Cósmica, using animal stand-ins to depict the intermixing between Latinx bodies. In his theory, Vasconcelos states that the Latin American intermixing of European DNA with Amerindian, Asian, and African DNA, created an ethnical fusion, a mestizáje, which he characterizes as the cosmic race. Pairing this theory with the Spanish Casta paintings, popular in 18th century Spanish colonial Mexico and instrumental in constructing racial identity through a visual index, I envision a new set of Castas where Silicon Valley technology has been integrated to intercommunicate between Latinx families.
Artist designed frames are wrapped with screen prints depicting various iterations of social media and tech company logos. This patterning highlights the artists’ concentration and concerns around our relationships with technology, the privacy and security of our personal data and surveillance capitalism as 21st Century’s newest form of human exploitation.
