“There is another world, but it is in this one,” said Surrealist poet Paul Éluard. In this exhibition, artists look to the future, imagining how we move forward from the tumultuous events of the past year. [read more]
Art in the Plague Year is an online exhibition organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography and curated by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov, and Rita Sobreiro Souther. UCR ARTS’s programs are supported by UCR College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the City of Riverside, Altura Credit Union, and Anheuser-Busch.
All works in this exhibition are reproduced with permission of the artists/copyright holders. Works (images, video, audio or other content) must not be used or reproduced for any purposes other than fair use without prior consent of the artists.
(b. 1979, San Pedro Cajonos, Sierra norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. Lives and works in Aguascalientes, Mexico.)
La Cueva del Hechicero [The Cave of the Magician]
“My work as a visual artist during the pandemic forced me to resume my previous craft practice. During the long periods of confinement, I began to experiment with cactus and huaje* fibers; I realized that through these materials I could conceive a transmutation of my physical body, representing a kind of shielding and protection from what was happening outside”. (*Huaje is the Mexican name for a widely distributed tree with white flowers and edible pods.)
