Video
(A Falta) De Pan, Tortillas: An Analysis of Decolonization and Immigration - Video
Video that I created, narrated and exhibited at Xpace Cultural Centre.
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Abstracted Alebrije
Detail imagge of an abstracted reconstruction of an image of a Luchador being attacked by two antagonists. The colorful costumes of the fighters alongside the textures from the corrugated metal create an interesting composition.
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Bending Pleasure
Digital manipulation of an image depicting a family sitting on a bench as they wait for the palenque (cock fight) to begin. Playing with form and composition, the work blends perspectives and highlights the colors from the image: primarily the blue... More
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Cubierto en el Arcoiris (Covered in the Rainbow)
Kids walk around in traditional regalia during a parade celebrating Indigenous Communities in Mexio City's zocalo (town square). Rust from the corroded steel bleeds through a layer of acrylic paint and the colorful attires of the image transfer.
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Cuetero (Firework Man)
Community member putting the finishing touches on a firework figure for La Quema del Panzon, celebrated by the members of Santa Maria Xixitla at the Great Pyramid of Cholula. The man's hands are visible adding fireworks onto the structure of the... More
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Eclipse: Bitches Took My Name
Archival Scans - London Transit ID. Exp 08/12 Colegio Americano Student ID. Exp 06/05 Air Canada Lost our Luggage & Forgot my Last Name Somewhere at the Border
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El Baile del Torito (Dance of the Bull)
Man runs at a post-Jaripeo dance holding a papier-mache Torito as it shoots fireworks around the venue. The image is framed by two hues of acrylic paint with rust bleeding through the paint and the image itself.
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El Charito y sus Primas
Family photo of my mom, her sister and their cousins posing in traditional Mexican clothing. The image has been playfully decorated by a slight green patina from the corrosion of the copper plate.
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El Palacio de Fierro
Rebar columns sticking out of Mexican homes are often mistaken as being unfinished, they are actually left with the hope of someday building a second floor - signs of an optimistic perspective of better things to come. The image's industrial... More
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El Sofa de la Abuela (Grandma's Couch)
Mom and Dad sitting on my Grandma's couch during my Mom's 23rd birthday party in 1990. The blue patina corrosion from the copper plate expands through the image transfer, blending into the floral pattern of the couch onto which they are sitting.
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El Tianguis (The Market)
Flash street photography inside a flea market in Mexico City. The corrugated metal panels hang on a wall emphasizing the warped nature of the found material, providing a unique presentation where shadows cast from panel to panel give a depth to the... More
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Flowers for Heinecken - Triptych
Both sides of a LIFE Magazine page depicted on the same plane - achieved through analog means on a scanner.
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Found Collages - Triptych
In a Duchampian sense, these are found collages fro a magazine that had previously been ripped up by someone else for an ulterior motive.
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Juntos y Apartados
Archival Scans - Passport Photos Parents met in 187, Marries in 1994, Immigrated in 2005 Unlike in Canada, identification photographs are widely required for any sort of bureaucratic procedure in Mexico. Because of this, my family has a... More
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La Esperada (The Waiting)
A family sits on a bench as they wait for the palenque (cock fight) to begin. The image is split chromatically by the blue sky and green fields in the backdrop and the red/yellow light leak that cuts across the family's legs in the foreground. ... More
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La Fiesta de los Globos y Las Flores (Festive Balloons and Flowers)
Mom posing in between friends at her 23rd birthday party in 1990. The images have been severely deteriorated from the rust of the metal bleeding through the image.
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La Paloma que era Cuervo (A Dove That was a Crow)
The antagonist Luchador "El Alebrije Negro" (Black Alebrije) stands on the rings' ropes as a crowd of children and their parents cheer for his fight during St Pedro Cholula's annual fair. Rust from the metal canvas the same color as the Luchador's... More
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La Piñata y La Locura I (Party Favour I)
Archival image of my mom’s family at a party in 1970s Mexico. The yellow/greenish tint of an aged and deteriorating photograph is enveloped within a blue-tinted piece of cracking glass. This memory seems to be preserved in some precious type of... More
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La Piñata y La Locura II (Party Favour II)
Archival image of my mom's family at a party in 1970s Mexico. People in the image are blurry due to kids running for the candy spilling from the piñata that my aunt is hitting. My grandma is seen in the background looking over the festivities. ... More
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La Sirena (The Mermaid)
Various archival images taken by my mother of her friends at different beaches in 1980s Mexico are amalgamated into one. Blue streaks of sky/ocean cut through the top of the copper plate. The metal itself bleeds through the image as the sand color... More
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Las Tierras Malditas (The Cursed Lands)
Mom as a kid posing in between her sister and cousin during a family trip to Cancun. (Original photo taken in the 1970s)
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LIFE Matchbooks
Analog and Digital collages made from Life Magazine Covers are appropriated and reduced to the layout of Matchbooks.
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Lo Que Dejamos (What We Left Behind)
I reorganize the images on this corkboard everytime I move to a new city. The visual content is always changing depending on where I am at in life - but the constant thing is having images of my family. This collage is meant to evoke everything... More
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Palimpsest Passaporte - Diptych
Archival Scans - Pasaporte Ordinario - One Week in Canada, Fall 1980 Utilizing my abuela and mom's shared passport, take free reign in rearranging the stamps, signatures and bureaucratic requirements in this identification document. I treat the... More
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Refragmenting Memories with Bits of Tape - Diptych
Archival Scans - Fotos de Familia Data Loss, (Virus) Mexico, Early 70s - Mid 80s Photos of my mom's side of my family from when she was a kid.
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Seguimos Siendo Ayotzinapa
On cultural memory of the Latinx diaspora, work focuses on los desaparacidos (abducted people) through a case study of the 43 Mexican students from Ayotzinapa.
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Street Photography
Street photography from my trip to Mexico from during August-September 2023.
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Taxonomy & Blanqueamiento, est. 1519
Archival Scans - Idenitty vvs Identification All The Ways You Choose To See Me
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Tejiendo Palma (Palm Weaving)
Street vendor sits on a sidewalk curb selling woven palm objects in my hometown of Cholula, Puebla. The rust from the metal plate bleeds through the layer of acrylic paint and the image itself.
Work by
Ernesto Cabral de Luna aka. abrokeniris
Lens-based Artist
“My BFA thesis project "Mining For Some Sort of Continuity" interrogates repercussions of colonization: primarily the constraints on movement across borders. The series encompasses archival and...” [More]