Mexicali Biennial
Screen Memories, a solo exhibition by María José Crespo, is an immersive, research-driven installation that explores Tijuana as a haunted city saturated with sensorial excess, systemic violence, and poetic resonance. This project proposes a counter-infrastructure through a speculative data center where ghosts, understood as social figures, lead us into fractured temporalities and hidden memory circuits. […]
This communal dinner event - imagined by multi-media artist Isidro Perez Garcia - invites guests to dine on traditional foods and drinks from the Americas including tostadas, tlacoyos or tamales de chipilin, and nieve de tuna, pulque, chicha morada, and agua fresca. This dinner series invites artists/creatives/chefs to craft food and drinks that translocate between […]
Join us for the opening reception of ANGER IS AN ENERGY: The Punk Alchemy of Miyo & Usen Print Editions Live screenprinting event during opening night led by Dewey Tafoya, lead printer & Assistant Director of the Professional Printmaking Program at Self Help Graphics. Bring your own t-shirt and a $5 donation. All funds donated […]
ANGER IS AN ENERGY: The Punk Alchemy of Miyo & Usen Print Editions explores the themes of knowledge/connection with the land, collaboration, and experimentation in the printmaking and collaborative print projects of artists Miyo Stevens-Gandara and Usen Gandara. Based in Whittier, California, these master printmakers are pillars of the printmaking community in Los Angeles. Known […]
Join us for a hands-on printmaking workshop led by artists Natalie Godinez and inspired by ancestral stories and memories. Participants are invited to create prints based on family legends and traditions. Prints may be added to a communal altar installation, forming a collective tribute to ancestral stories. Materials provided. Event is free and open to […]
Beginning December 6, MexiCali Biennial artist-in-residence Guillermo Estrada, will create a window installation at the MXCL BNL LAB. As part of Estrada's current exhibition Almendroides, Aliens & Indígenas, the artist will create a graphic window "portal" as a parallax experience of the artwork, while also referencing the liminality and impermanence of borders. Please note that […]
Join us for a discussion by transborder artist Guillermo Estrada and Rubén Ortiz-Torres. The artists will discuss Estrada's current residency at the MXCL BNL LAB and themes around topics related to the border as a supernatural zone. This event is part of an artist residency and exhibition, Guillermo Estrada: ALMENDROIDS, ALIEN & INDÍGENA on view […]