In this episode, I talk with a fellow Juarense Paloma Vianey, a Mexican artist doing an MFA at Cornell University. We talked about her experience of being a visual artist from the México/US border, specifically Cd. Juárez - El Paso borderland. How she started producing art and what her art is trying to transmit and portray about the fronterizo experience. We also relate the current quarantine to a self-imposed lockdown that took her to start painting back in the day “When the violence was very abrupt, that meant that I had to find myself at home. I couldn’t go out much and I said to myself, ‘I don’t want to just do nothing, I have to do something,’ so that’s when I started training to be an artist and I started painting more. I wanted to depict a composition that could portray the culture and Juárez in a positive context instead of ‘Juárez is world-wide known for terrible things.’ So what I wanted to do was take all that negativity and transform it into something positive.”
Recommendations
Liars by Malcon Gladwell
A bit of relief podcast
The New Yorker cartoons
Fleabag on Prime Video
Links
https://www.instagram.com/palomavianey/
https://www.theprospectordaily.com/2018/05/01/top-10-senior-takes-her-art-to-international-exhibits/
http://news.utep.edu/studying-art-history-at-the-met/
