Untitled: Hey! Where have you been?! Thought you got deported (2017)
Xerox photocopies, alcohol-based markers, color pencils.

Untitled: Hey! Where have you been?! Thought you got deported (2017), investigates the tragicomic nature of immigration, home and belonging and the slippage of identity in America. This work revisits fragments of text from Baudrillard's America. Drawings are made on an oversized set of Xerox photocopies, with marginalia marks added including scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles and border vignettes (bricks, plumbing pipes, barbed wire). Hermeneutic and comedic tropes form a temporal and conceptual palimpsest. Outdated meme characters Heman and Pepe the Frog stage a salutation expressed to the artist while ordering an Americano from her local coffee shop. Baudrillard's own questions trigger Alva's memories, as she explores laughter in America. A fan blows, activating the drawing as if it were an animated gif.

 

Astral America: Hyperreality and Ethereality, 2017
curated by Karen Moscovitch