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#Fidencio Fifield-Perez
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Fidencio Fifield-Perez’s Dacaments collection started as a response to the paperwork of the U.S. immigration system. The Oaxaca-born artist immigrated along with his household as a toddler, making him eligible for DACA (Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals). To qualify and retain his standing, he wanted to gather official paperwork, the envelopes from which turned the substrate for his work.
When the Trump administration terminated the coverage in 2017, folks like Fifield-Perez had been thrown into limbo earlier than the Supreme Court docket reinstated it in 2020. His hyperrealistic renderings of potted vegetation mirror this precarious place as symbols of domesticity and thriving life relaxation atop discarded mailers which have fulfilled their functions. “Painted envelopes are configured into intimate portraits of the one residence I’ve made for myself, moved throughout the nation, and mourned for with the approaching menace of DACA’s repeal,” the artist says, including:
The plant work are bodily and metaphorical maps of non-public and official correspondence. The rubber plant deserted outdoors The College of Iowa’s artwork studios painted on the mailer envelope of my graduate diploma; the split-leaf monstera gifted to my husband and me for our marriage ceremony ceremony; the jade plant given to me by the one different dacamented professor I’ve met.
Ongoing since 2016, Dacaments will conclude this 12 months when Fifield-Perez’s DACA standing ends.
As a part of a McKnight Fellowship, the artist is working towards a present at Highpoint Middle for Printmaking in Minneapolis, the place he lives. Discover extra of his work and collages on his web site and Instagram.
#Fidencio Fifield-Perez
#immigration
#mail
#portray
#vegetation
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