Migration Essentials

In the center, a work table from Gómez’s own studio, is centered in the space, filled with white shoes and accessories. The back most wall, closest to the work table, features a community food pantry, holding donated global foods. Adjacent is a backdrop, and a collection of fabrics, placed for documentation purposes, highlighting a green screen for a post experience collaboration experience. Along the longest wall, a thin shelf with empty frames and a clothes line of white garments, pinned individually. Diagonally, on the smallest wall, are two empty white shelves.

Migration Essentials, a social practice project, guided the user in a trauma and migration reflection. Guided by a google site, the viewer could choose to collaborate and co-author a piece to be simultaneusly displayed. The user was prompted to consent, reflect, create, and document.

Facilitating a healing pattern, through malleable materials, Gómez curated a space to kinetically process familial histories of migration through memory. The exhibit was intentionally made to highlight change, the migration of products through the space, ephemerality, and co-authorship.

The artist wore all white to the opening and participated as a material option.