martes, enero 01, 2008
"Borderlandia" art exhibit
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An art exhibit at the Des Moines Art Center caught our eye—
called "Borderlandia," it features works by Mexican-born San Francisco artist Eduardo Chagoya.
What we found particularly interesting was the way
the New York TImes' Caucus blog described the art:
One work depicts former California Governor Pete Wilson, known for his harsh anti-immigration views, being consumed by Aztecs. In other works, Mickey Mouse is turned into a threatening symbol of United States imperialism and Christopher Columbus is seen as landing in the Americas in gunboats.
The exhibit, by Mexican-born artist Enrique Chagoya, who now lives in San Francisco, would provide plenty of ammunition for anti-immigration activists – all signs are in Spanish and English, George W. Bush is held up for ridicule in art pieces in which he morphs into Richard Nixon and a satirical Superman bursts out of Pilgrim garb. (...)
In its own way, the exhibit turns some of the current immigration debate on its head. One of the interpretive signs says that: “Chagoya points out that the Pilgrims were actually some of the first illegal aliens, who invaded and ultimately seized the land from the Native Americans.”
