All That I Can Carry #2 by William Camargo
SOLD
William Camargo
All That I Can Carry #2, 2020
16 x 20 in. mounted
Archival Inkjet Print on Canson Platine Paper
Edition 1/5
About the Work
Derived from Rasquachismo, the All That I Can Carry series started during the pandemic as the artist was visiting his parents home, organizing and trying to get rid of materials from his family's sheds. I literally carried what I could and made a sculpture of my body.
About the Artist
William Camargo is a photo-based artist and educator born and raised in Anaheim, California. He is a photography lecturer at the University of California San Diego and Cal State Fullerton. He attained his M.F.A from Claremont Graduate University, a BFA from Cal State Fullerton, and an AA at Fullerton Community College. William is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives, an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos. He uses photography, installation, public interventions, and archives to address gentrification, police violence, and Chicanx/Latinx histories. William has residencies at the Latinx Project at NYU, Light Work in Syracuse, NY, TILT Institute for Contemporary Image in Philadelphia, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and Penumbra Foundation, NYC.