Anahi Gonzalez

Lives and works in London, ON, Canada

Artist statement

Anahí González (Saltillo, Coahuila, México. 1993) is a Mexican photographer based in London, Ontario, Canada and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Visual Arts at Western University. González explores alternative visual narratives related to Mexican migrants. Her practice is concerned with the colonial subject as the other and the politics within Mexican body representation on imagery. Working with materials related to human labour and exportation, she refers to Mexico and Canada's economic relations. Treaties between countries that allow the movement of goods and people, but who is truly the beneficiary of these treaties? The one who works, the country that sends the human capital or the country that receives it? As a norteña, she treats música norteña and corridos as record and narrative evidence of the migrant experience, providing an in-depth history of Mexican border-migrant culture. With this information and connecting with Mexican migrants in Canada through social media, González contextualizes it in Canada—the other neighbor of el otro lado—using the medium of photography. Her last solo show, Donde Se Limpia, was presented at the Museo del Centenario (San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México) in 2017 and her work has been shown in countries such as Mexico, Canada, Spain, and France.

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