You Belong Here: Place, People and Purpose in Latinx Photography
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - Sunday, December 3, 2023
You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography celebrates the dynamic photography of Latinx artists across the United States. The exhibition brings together established and emerging artists who tackle themes of political resistance, family and community, fashion and culture, and the complexity of identity in American life.
Artists in the exhibition contribute to a vast visual archive that chronicles the Latinx experience as pluralistic, nuanced, and fluid. They illustrate a range of histories and geographies, contextualize and reinterpret watershed social and artistic movements, stake space for queerness, and articulate the importance of photography within the larger field of Latinx art.
You Belong Here presents contemporary photography that sheds light on social spaces—from intimate portrayals of home and family to collective experiences of the streets and nightlife—as well as on the in-betweenness, or nepantla, of transnational, multiracial, and postcolonial identities. It generates an expansive dialogue about visibility and belonging for Latinx people.
The exhibition features works by Laura Aguilar, Genesis Báez, William Camargo, Sofía Córdova, Perla de Leon, Tarrah Krajnak, Hiram Maristany, Joiri Minaya, Steven Molina Contreras, Star Montana, Eddie Quiñones, Reynaldo Rivera, Guadalupe Rosales, Gabriela Ruiz and Bibs Moreno, and John M. Valadez.
Curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, chief curator and deputy director of Curatorial and Collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, You Belong Here originates from Tompkins Rivas’s work as guest editor of Latinx, the Winter 2021 issue of Aperture Magazine.
This exhibition has been made possible in Atlanta through generous support from the Charles S. Ackerman Fund, Georgia Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ United We Stand Initiative, and the Massey Charitable Trust. This exhibition is supported by valued community partners: Georgia Public Broadcasting, the Latin American Association, Placita Latina, and Topo Chico.
This exhibition is organized by Aperture.
WATCH Constructing an Image, a conversation between Emory Assistant Professor Yami Rodriguez and Atlanta-based photographers Victoria Garcia and José Ibarra Rizo exploring identity, community, and history through photography.
Artists in the exhibition contribute to a vast visual archive that chronicles the Latinx experience as pluralistic, nuanced, and fluid. They illustrate a range of histories and geographies, contextualize and reinterpret watershed social and artistic movements, stake space for queerness, and articulate the importance of photography within the larger field of Latinx art.
You Belong Here presents contemporary photography that sheds light on social spaces—from intimate portrayals of home and family to collective experiences of the streets and nightlife—as well as on the in-betweenness, or nepantla, of transnational, multiracial, and postcolonial identities. It generates an expansive dialogue about visibility and belonging for Latinx people.
The exhibition features works by Laura Aguilar, Genesis Báez, William Camargo, Sofía Córdova, Perla de Leon, Tarrah Krajnak, Hiram Maristany, Joiri Minaya, Steven Molina Contreras, Star Montana, Eddie Quiñones, Reynaldo Rivera, Guadalupe Rosales, Gabriela Ruiz and Bibs Moreno, and John M. Valadez.
Curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, chief curator and deputy director of Curatorial and Collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, You Belong Here originates from Tompkins Rivas’s work as guest editor of Latinx, the Winter 2021 issue of Aperture Magazine.
This exhibition has been made possible in Atlanta through generous support from the Charles S. Ackerman Fund, Georgia Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ United We Stand Initiative, and the Massey Charitable Trust. This exhibition is supported by valued community partners: Georgia Public Broadcasting, the Latin American Association, Placita Latina, and Topo Chico.
This exhibition is organized by Aperture.
WATCH Constructing an Image, a conversation between Emory Assistant Professor Yami Rodriguez and Atlanta-based photographers Victoria Garcia and José Ibarra Rizo exploring identity, community, and history through photography.
