Gómez’s work is a witty homage to the people whose labor is made invisible day after day.
Gómez’s work is a witty homage to the people whose labor is made invisible day after day. In hisseries, Gómez draws inspiration from Los Angeles’s huge, essential, and often obscured population of immigrant laborers working behind-the-scenes to maintain movie sets, museums, and palm tree-dotted roads.
Embroidered into Cabrera’s sculptures are colorful stitchings of animals, flowers, shining suns, the Mexican flag, and words like “family” and “love,” each panel a unique depiction of a worker’s daily life and unique concept of identity and home. Cabrera, a Mexican immigrant herself, created the sculptures with the help of immigrant seamstresses who attended a series of embroidery workshops she hosted as part of a community outreach program in 2010.
In another work, a black-and-white photograph from 2018, Jaar imagines Ellis Island as it might look in 2024, a place devoid of any traces of what made it a symbol of hope, tolerance, and solidarity for the millions of immigrants that passed through its doors during the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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