Screenprint by artist Anahí González, installed as part of her exhibition bienes importados / imported goods
Artist Statement:
González’s artistic practice explores migration, Mexican labour, and identity with questions relating to commerce, systems of power and the event of photography through installation, photography, and moving images.
Working with cardboard boxes from Latin Markets in Ontario as a sign and cipher of an absent subject of labour, González brings attention and critique to how the system of powers perceives Mexican labour as mobile, multi-purpose and temporary. Her practice is concerned with concepts about migration, North American economies, labour, and commercial identity. In newer works, she explores visual cues in Mexican landscape and identity to create installations of hybridity to transcend and mend questioning Mexican commercial identity.
Artist Bio:
Photograph of artist Anahí González
Anahí González is a Mexican photographer based in London, Canada. She explores alternative visual narratives related to Mexican migrants and Mexican labour within/for Canada, in order to decenter the United States narrative concerning Mexican migration. She holds a BA in Communication (Mexico) and an MFA from Western University (Canada). She is currently an Art and Visual Culture Ph.D. candidate at Western University (Canada).
She was selected to be part of the AGO X RBC Emerging Artist Exchange program (2022) and was a grant holder of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte Grant (Jóvenes Creadores) in Mexico, Generation 2021-2022. Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings in countries such as Mexico, Canada, the USA, Norway, Spain, and France.