Pensamientos / Thoughts, 2022. Oil on canvas; 24 x 20 in. Photo: Allison Minto
Pensamientos / Thoughts (detail), 2022. Oil on canvas; 24 x 20 in. Photo: Meghan Olson.
Pensamientos / Thoughts (detail), 2022. Oil on canvas; 24 x 20 in. Photo: Meghan Olson.
Calcomanías / Food stickers, 2021. Food stickers on sewn plastic; 59 x 40 in. Photo: Etienne Frossard.
Calcomanías / Food stickers (detail), 2021. Food stickers on sewn plastic; 59 x 40 in. Photo: Meghan Olson.
En camino / On the way, 2022. Monofilament meshes, plastic handle tubing, and sewn grocery bags; 17.5 x 19.5 ft. Photo courtesy the artist.
En camino / On the way (detail), 2022. Monofilament meshes, plastic handle tubing, and sewn grocery bags; 17.5 x 19.5 ft. Photo: Meghan Olson.
En camino / On the way (detail), 2022. Monofilament meshes, plastic handle tubing, and sewn grocery bags; 17.5 x 19.5 ft. Photo: Meghan Olson.
En camino / On the way (detail), 2022. Monofilament meshes, plastic handle tubing, and sewn grocery bags; 17.5 x 19.5 ft. Photo: Allison Minto.
En camino / On the way (detail), 2022. Monofilament meshes, plastic handle tubing, and sewn grocery bags; 17.5 x 19.5 ft. Photo: Allison Minto.
Salvador Andrade Arévalo
b. Jalisco, México
Salvador Andrade Arévalo’s practice is informed by his upbringing as a Mexican immigrant in Chicago and by the untold histories of his migrant family. Given that his family has oscillated between two countries for over a century, his work centers on the beauty of tacit and intergenerational embodied knowledge that thrives within migrant communities. As a trained printmaker, he relies on a mixed media format that explores materials used by laborers. In this way, he communes with his family's migrant legacy, and he celebrates the knowledge of a family that was never formally educated. More importantly, he reasserts their histories in the face of a traditional Western canon that has upheld exploitative neoliberal power structures. By doing so, he attempts to grant space to migrant communities that continue to reinvent themselves despite xenophobic persecution and condemnation.