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Central School Project
IN THE SKIN OF THE BORDER:
Latinx Futurism And Borderland Ecologies
Photography, Painting, Sound Installation
October 24th - November 9th
Artist's Opening Reception
Friday October 24th, 6pm
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 11-4
In the Skin of the Border: Latinx Futurism and Borderland Ecologies
Featuring work by: Jenea Sanchez, Gabriela Muñoz, Ammi Robles, Jessica Fertonani Cooke, and Yadira Camacho Villa
Opening Friday, October 24th, 6pm
We have an exciting and dynamic group exhibition coming up in October that will feature five cross-disciplinary Latinx artists of the Southeastern borderlands. This show will include, a collaborative photography series by Jenea Sanchez, Gabriela Muñoz, and Ammi Robles (Fronterizx Collective) that situates the femme body within the borderland’s ecosystem in an exploration of Latinx Futurism; a sound installation by Jessica Fertonani-Cooke that draws upon local desert ecologies to investigate the concept of deep time; the paintings of Yadira Camacho Villa whose acrylic work on unconventional canvasses compels us to bear witness to marginalized groups whose stories often go untold; and the photos of Ammi Robles who offers a nuanced exploration of daily life in Agua Prieta, Robles' hometown. Collectively, their projects and collaborations center women, social justice, and racial equity by foregrounding the agency of border landscapes and their occupants. This is a show not to be missed!
Jenea Sanchez was born and raised in Douglas, AZ/Agua Prieta, Sonora. Her multidisciplinary practice explores notions of borders and the ways in which the fronterizx’s occupy, cross and imagine liminal spaces.
Gabriela Muñoz was born and raised in Chihuahua MX, and has lived in Arizona for more than a decade. Her installations, printed works and collaborations function as a growing archive documenting the lives of women of color and the spaces where they build a counternarrative that values power-sharing, peer-to-peer learning, and horizontal leadership models in the borderlands.
Ammi Robles is a visual artist and language interpreter raised in the border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora. She also works as a photographer, independent filmmaker, performer, and organizer.
Jessica Fertonani Cooke is a Brazilian/US painter, video/installation and performance artist who currently researches natural, mythological and political borders in the Sonoran Desert and works alongside multiple communities in the creation of social practice works.
Yadira Camacho Villa is a painter from Agua Prieta, Sonora whose work addresses the issue of migration, a topic she has been closely involved with as both a lifelong border resident, and through her friendship with Gil Gillenwater, founder of the Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation and La Hacienda Feliz in Agua Prieta.