Artist Reception | Alien Excavations
January 31 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us for Alien Excavations opening reception and book launch. This group exhibition highlights ALIEN – a multi-part artist publication that brings together five artists to investigate the meaning of “alienness” within the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. The book consists of three interlocking books produced with Taller California and MexiCali Biennial. Rather than looking to outer space, the artists turn toward the land itself, surfacing buried histories of extraction, migration, and Indigenous memory to reveal how colonial and imperial systems have rendered both people and environments “alien.”
The publication will be available for sale at MXCL BNL LAB during the opening and throughout the exhibition.