Caravan

Betsabeé Romero & José Garcia Moreno
With David Garden

January 25 to March 13, 2020

A series of lined up multicolored hanging papercrafts with fire test target designs and bullet holes through them

La mira equivocada / The Wrong Look, 2019 cut paper with serigraph, 60 x 40 in ea. Courtesy of Latino Arts Project in Dallas, TX

The Laband Art Gallery is pleased to present a collaborative art installation conceived by internationally-recognized Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero with José Garcia Moreno and David Garden, both faculty in LMU’s School of Film & Television. Entitled “Caravan,” this exhibition employs Romero’s signature reworking of craft traditions to address the conditions faced by immigrants in our contemporary moment. In addition to work in paper, fabric, metal, and rubber, Romero’s visuals will be translated into an experimental animation piece that echoes liminal states of migration.

The exhibition Caravan was organized in partnership with the Academy of Catholic Thought & Imagination, the School of Film & Television, and the Latino Arts Project in Dallas, TX.

Stylized painted metal work in the shape of an immigrant family crossing the border

Two visitors admiring a spinning device with light emitting from the center, projecting different shapes on the walls around it

Visitors observing several hanging, painted cutouts depicting an immigrant family

A visitor observing colorful target practice sheets with human figures on them

A visitor walking along next to a series of colorful target practice sheets with human figures on them

A visitor standing next to a grid of stylized missing persons posters

A series of colorful target practice sheets with human figures on them

Two visitors admiring a spinning device with light emitting from the center, projecting different shapes on the walls around it

A student looking through the center of several painted tires suspended from the ceiling

A visitor looking through the center a painted tire suspended from the ceiling