Casa Lü: Cadáver Exquisito Exhibition 2021
CDMX, Mexico
"These works discuss a transformative change when facing self-discovery. The conglomerate of
paintings are grouped together but remain individually compacted with ideas of
miscommunication and environmental embodiment. The imagery and natural materials are the
tools needed to rebuild a relationship with the ancestral heritage that becomes muted when
migrating to the US. The greatest offender of cultural bereavement is the loss of language and
disconnection with community. These disadvantages have stunted me from forming close
relationships with my Mexican family, including my mother who immigrated to Texas at 22 years
old. How do I engage? How can I belong? Where is my place here? The cultural division and
feeling of uncertainty is common for children of immigrant parents, therefore, working in Mexico
City has personally brought opportunity to fill specific language and cultural gaps.
The culture shock is humbling and extremely influential. The presence of murals is very
apparent within the city and convey the emotions and thoughts of the community. Murals also
take over a great amount of the city's architecture. The tinted plaster complemented by plants
and organic materials has influenced its way into these crackled and industrialized pieces.
Including yarn, cloth, and sewing plays a metaphorical/surgical method to binding the body of
these self-reflective paintings. Deconstruction and reconstruction is an intentional theme during
the process of creation. For example, plaster is pushed and pulled, string and cloth is scraped
then reapplied repeatedly. Consequently, the rule of thumb for propelling the abstraction and
emphasizing the textural components of each piece is by letting nature take its course and
preserving its primitive nature.
Painting tends to meet me halfway during self-discovery, meaning, as I interact with objects
used to represent my heritage, painting creates the internal dialogue that harmoniously
interlocks the significance of each fabric, found object, and color. As I project my own
experiences in these works, it is through an uncomfortable sense of self-awareness that
manages the construction of a person with new understandings to a foreign world, to open up
about the psychological effects of migration, and a personal displacement from an inherited
history."
paintings are grouped together but remain individually compacted with ideas of
miscommunication and environmental embodiment. The imagery and natural materials are the
tools needed to rebuild a relationship with the ancestral heritage that becomes muted when
migrating to the US. The greatest offender of cultural bereavement is the loss of language and
disconnection with community. These disadvantages have stunted me from forming close
relationships with my Mexican family, including my mother who immigrated to Texas at 22 years
old. How do I engage? How can I belong? Where is my place here? The cultural division and
feeling of uncertainty is common for children of immigrant parents, therefore, working in Mexico
City has personally brought opportunity to fill specific language and cultural gaps.
The culture shock is humbling and extremely influential. The presence of murals is very
apparent within the city and convey the emotions and thoughts of the community. Murals also
take over a great amount of the city's architecture. The tinted plaster complemented by plants
and organic materials has influenced its way into these crackled and industrialized pieces.
Including yarn, cloth, and sewing plays a metaphorical/surgical method to binding the body of
these self-reflective paintings. Deconstruction and reconstruction is an intentional theme during
the process of creation. For example, plaster is pushed and pulled, string and cloth is scraped
then reapplied repeatedly. Consequently, the rule of thumb for propelling the abstraction and
emphasizing the textural components of each piece is by letting nature take its course and
preserving its primitive nature.
Painting tends to meet me halfway during self-discovery, meaning, as I interact with objects
used to represent my heritage, painting creates the internal dialogue that harmoniously
interlocks the significance of each fabric, found object, and color. As I project my own
experiences in these works, it is through an uncomfortable sense of self-awareness that
manages the construction of a person with new understandings to a foreign world, to open up
about the psychological effects of migration, and a personal displacement from an inherited
history."
Yellow, Skin and Bones. Mixed media on fabric. 2021. 7ft x 3ft
Yellow, Skin and Bones. Mixed media on fabric. 2021. 7ft x 3ft
I or the Village, 2021. Mixed media on wall. 9ft x 8ft
I or the Village, 2021. Mixed media on wall. 9ft x 8ft