Browsing by Author "Chagoya, Enrique"

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    The Ghosts of Borderlandia
    (2017) Chagoya, Enrique
    The Ghosts of Borderlandia is a codex that refers to the borders that people build between themselves. In this codex, peoples are hidden by a wall or underground to symbolize the lack of sight that the borders create. The invisible borders create stereotypes that dehumanize the "other" and creates an "us vs. them" context. They may be between social classes, gender identity, religion, sex, ethnicities, and cultures.
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    Illegal Alien’s Guide to Somewhere Over the Rainbow
    (2010) Chagoya, Enrique
    In this print, Enrique Chagoya depicts a world beset with man-made pollution: environmental, social and industrial. The planet is anthropomorphized as a character who has met their wit's end. Each country is drawn in a distorted size proportional to its carbon emissions. Sea creatures fight back by attacking oil tankers and an army of green men follow an elephant into an unknown, but perhaps a more hopeful, future.
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    La Portentosa de la Muerte II
    (2008) Chagoya, Enrique
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    La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte
    (2003) Chagoya, Enrique
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    The Pastoral or Arcadian State: Illegals Guide to Greater America
    (2006) Chagoya, Enrique
    In this print, Enrique Chagoya has created a pastoral pastiche based on George Caleb Bingham's painting " Jolly Floatboatmen" and an Albert Bierstadt Painting of the American West. It is a commentary on current immigration concerns with the scene populated by a diverse mix of character. Using images appropriated from many sources, Chagoya has combined the heads from some images, with bodies from others. He has Border Patrol Officers with Indian headdresses and businessmen with turbans. He has drawn Humpty Dumpty as the Lone Ranger and many smaller figures appear to be in the background. Many of the characters have cartoon "bubbles" quoting "artspeak". In this context, the quotes become a satirical self - criticism of the print and its imagery.
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    The Thingly Thingness of Things
    (2013) Chagoya, Enrique
    The Thingly Thingness of Things, is about the unpredictable nature of life using some philosophical opposites. Goethe’s Faust said the tree of theory is grey while the tree of life is green. The title is based on a quote from Heidegger, a philosopher who overly theorized and kept himself detached from life and presents a view opposite to Goethe’s. The cluster of heads on the water is made up of people blocking each other’s view of The Tree of Life while they get deeper in the waters (this image was inspired by Philip Guston paintings). The Tree of Life is generous and keeps dropping its fruit on the unaware heads. I played with the idea that viewers have to imagine the eyes of each subject hiding behind one another. The heads represent different cultures comingling in space but without much of a connection and without seeing each other. The little ballerina on the top of the knife is transforming a threatening weapon into a harmless stage for a dance.” Enrique Chagoya - Sharks Inc.