“Entanglements: Before and After NAFTA” Exhibition

The International Studio & Curatorial Program

[Image: Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda "Elegy and (Re)Percussion" (2019) detail of 46 die-cut coins inscribed with the phrase ‘I do deserve abundance’ mounted on an acrylic base, 16 × 91/2 in. Courtesy of the artist]

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Entanglements: Before and After NAFTA curated by Bárbara Perea Legorreta, ISCP’s Jane Farver Memorial Fund resident.

In the wake of the recent and tense renegotiation of the three-way North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, the growing humanitarian immigration crisis, and new draconian United States border policies, Entanglements: Before and After NAFTA presents a critical and transhistorical analysis of economic exchange in North America through the lens of contemporary art practices.

The featured artists explore a range of issues including links between Canadian mining interests and organized crime, the effects of Big Sugar on the post-NAFTA diet, the necropolitical instrumentalization of populations in service to drug trade, and other entangled undercurrents that are related to this pact.

Artists in the exhibition are Alejandro Gómez Arias, Gina Arizpe, Patricia Carrillo Carrera, Virginia Colwell, Arcángel Constantini, Iván Edeza, Fritzia Irizar, Jason Mena, Roy Meuwissen, Yoshua Okón, and Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda.