Artist Reception for Pisando Lodo | Colectivo Rasquache

Pisando Lodo (Treading Mud) is a group exhibition by the Rasquache Artist Residency and the collective of artists who have worked in and with the community of San Francisco Coapan, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico since 2016.

Featuring work that addresses the many intersections of transborder communities, immigration, indigeneity, and community engagement,  Pisando Lodo seeks to amplify the current humanitarian crisis of mass migration, diasporic migrant communities in the U.S, contemporary social practice, and pragmatic means of empathizing with our migrant sisters and brothers.

STATEMENT of Colectivo Rasquache

Pisando Lodo pays homage to the community of San Francisco Coapan which has welcomed the Rasquache Residency and given artists the opportunity to learn and respond to local and transborder urgencies. Before the 1990’s when many in Coapan were forced to self-displace and migrate to the U.S, pisando lodo in the early mornings was a community effort preparing clay to make bricks; bricks which…