Vick Quezada (they/them) will exhibit recent works related to their projects around Indigenous-Latinx hybridity and how material histories function in contested lands and particularly the Mexico-United States border. The exhibit will loop Quezada’s performance in El Paso, Texas along with sculptural works and documentation that elucidates the artist’s process and vision. The show will open to the public on January 31st, 2020, on view during building hours until May 15th, 2020. 

Quezada’s works queer the archaeological. Their projects explore the material histories and consciousness of Indigenous-Latinx hybridity within Western culture. They use a variety of mediums including sculpture, photography, video, and performances, embodying ancient Nahuan rites to simultaneously make the obscured visible. Their artifacts delineate inherent systems of power and subjectivity in the Americas while transgressing “official” historical accounts. Quezada’s incorporation of natural elements; soil and flora, reference Indigenous beliefs that all beings are interconnected, that the spirit earth and the cosmology are one.