Complexities, migration and belonging
Magnetic Currents: Representations charged by the U.S. and Mexico Border, is an exhibition that spans across two spaces on the California State University Channel Islands campus, in Broome Library Gallery and Napa Hall Gallery. Beyond an address of physical proximity, this show offers nuanced expressions about the complexities of borders.
The curators have drawn together artists who migrate globally, but who are deeply anchored to the United States and Mexico borderlands. Some deal with the polarities of identity and belonging, as they relate to boundaries, place, and the struggle to reclaim the land. Others dissolve boundaries through their creative processes and their own movement across borders, as they traverse space, history, systems, and practices. Currents that flow through the show include spiritual totems, stereotypes, and cultural representations, as well as concepts of migration and belonging.
Magnetic Currents presents a diverse spectrum of experiences and a range of creative approaches charged by the U.S. and Mexico borderlands. Artists in the show share interdisciplinary creative approaches in exploration and discovery, as well as in the application and transmission of knowledge. As active agents of change, each artist distinctly intersects with issues and/or speaks to their personal journeys, while they reveal, and we the audience revel in, the effervescence of their materials and stories.
On display March 9 – September 4, 2020
California State University Channel Islands Art Galleries
One University Drive, Camarillo, CA 93012
Website: https://art.csuci.edu/exhibitions/about-the-galleries.htm
Magnetic Currents: Representations charged by the U.S. and Mexico Border 