Join us for Y TUS PAPELES? / VERIFIED BY PROOF, a group exhibition co-curated by Miguel A. Aragón and Eddy A. López, on view from Monday, Feb. 10 to Friday, Mar. 7; reception: Thursday, Feb. 20, 4:30pm-6:00pm in the Gallery of the College of Staten Island (Center for the Arts [Building 1P], Room 112).
1P-112
Gallery hours: Monday to Thursday, Noon – 4:00pm
Every day, hundreds of thousands of people cross borders. At these crossings, governments ask individuals to present papers for verification of migration status, documents that restrict entry to those individuals lucky enough to be verified by proof. For migrants without papers, the mundane question “Show me your papers/ A ver, y tus papeles?” is not mundane, but rather an impossible interrogation that forces these individuals to risk their lives in an effort to avoid being verified. Having papers, therefore, becomes a matter of life or death.
Exhibiting artists: Golnar Adili, Carlos Barberena, Adriana Barrios, Tulu Bayar, Pamela Dodds, J. Leigh Garcia, Marco Hernandez, Juana Estrada-Hernández, Eddy A. López, Emma Nishimura, Patricia Villalobos-Echevarría, Marco Sánchez
By the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
