Mi Casa Es Su Casa.

摘要

In Mi Casa Es Su Casa, I explore issues of power, memory and history through the specifics of my social location as a working-class Chicana. Using family photographs primarily from the 1940s--1960s as a starting point, the question of what the photo reveals and conceals about identity through the codes of landscape, the pose, architecture, fashion and design inspired an investigation of the uneasy and slippery terrain of "representation" itself.; Through my attempts to undo the fixed and reductive nature of the photo, I found myself paradoxically attempting to develop modes of representation. Mediums such as photography, digital imagery, sound and installation are strategically used in search of a visual language that permits shifting, non-reductive and complex portrayals. The resulting installations approach "home" as something simultaneously created and dismantled: a language system that grows into a contradictory, yet complex network of signs clashing, coexisting, and transfiguring into something irreducible.