Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla

August 6th – September 12th, 2021

Opening Day: Friday, 8/6 1-6PM with a reception from 7–10PM

Artists:  Maximiliano Cervantes, Jennifer Villanueva, Sophie Lopez, Carol Bedoy

Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla is a collective of Mexican-American lens-based artists in Chicago who use their artistic labor to raise questions of workers’ rights, immigration policy, and the horrors of American History. As children of immigrant parents, the collective work in Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla uses photography to document the undocumented, visualize generational trauma, express gratitude towards our families, and use the camera as a tool for the visual language of labor. Just as the United States population continues to grow and increase, Latinx people are announced as the largest and fastest-growing ethnic minority group living in the U.S by 18.01%. According to the U.S Census Bureau, that is about 58.9 million residents [documented and undocumented] who identify as Latinx or Hispanic as of July…