The Moment When You Feel

The Moment When You Feel was an installation conceived specifically for the entrance of the Mexicali Biennial at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art. The installation manifests the mythical figure of Amazon Queen Calafia–the warrior who is the namesake and ruler of the island of California and protagonist of the Biennial–as traversing fraught welcoming and unwelcoming discourse, history and territory; the promised land as a site of work power and the appropriation of the symbolic Hollywood red carpet as a shorthand for visibility and representation forging its own zigzag path up and around the tall white wall in the “welcoming” hallway of the museum.

October 4 – December 15, 2018