Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Spring 2025
San Antonio, Texas
Selected by guest curator Jami Powell
Exhibition: March 20–July 13, 2025
Nothing Grows In A Straight Line
Echoing the geometry of American memorials, the works shift monumentality's language toward everyday labor and the land. It honors histories such as my grandparents', whose migration from Mexico to the United States was shaped by agricultural work and a relationship to land defined by movement and physical labor.
Paired with native plants and pollinators, or images of American landscapes, Nothing Grows In A Straight Line becomes a living landscape where ancestral narratives and ecological systems converge. Human and ecological migrations unfold in parallel, shaped by necessity, adaptation, interdependence, and survival
