Jesus Trevino

Lives and works in Brownsville, TX, USA

Artist statement

Rooted from my experience being raised on the U.S./Mexican borderlands, My work deals with loss and the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. I’m interested in land’s capacity to hold traces of unresolved tensions when thinking about histories of erasure, movement, displacement of people, and how that shapes my identity which continues to shift, fade, and reassemble. Using disruption, concealment and layering, my practice allows for an unfolding and discovery of stories that resist being buried beneath the surface of unstable and agitated paintings. Working from a bank of collected images found in family photo albums, social media profiles, personal archives, and articles about the border, landscapes often act like a witness to these moments with figures caught in-between dematerializing and in a state of becoming, seeking to claim identity and autonomy.

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