Virginia Colwell: To Have and to Hold
To Have and to Hold is an exhibition of new work by Virginia Colwell (Mexico City, born Nebraska, 1980), whose work operates in the ambiguity of truth and fiction in history and archives. By looking at the similarities of the landscape, and particularly that of the Southern United States and its similarities with the state of Veracruz, Mexico, Colwell uses the romanization of the South to examine the deliberate obfuscation of the deep history of enslavement and racism.
To Have and to Hold exposes the profound history of perpetuated erasure, of a racialized past, and our own present state of denial. Sited at Co-Lab Projects, the exhibition refers to and is relevant to Austin, Texas through a shared connection of the ball moss and vegetation that exists naturally in the city. This landscape ties us to the roots of historical subjugation, and is evidenced in the history of the city of Austin and the State of Texas.
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To Have and to Hold is an exhibition of new work by Virginia Colwell (Mexico City, born Nebraska, 1980), whose work operates in the ambiguity of truth and fiction in history and archives. By looking at the similarities of the landscape, and particularly that of the Southern United States and its similarities with the state of Veracruz, Mexico, Colwell uses the romanization of the South to examine the deliberate obfuscation of the deep history of enslavement and racism.
To Have and to Hold exposes the profound history of perpetuated erasure, of a racialized past, and our own present state of denial. Sited at Co-Lab Projects, the exhibition refers to and is relevant to Austin, Texas through a shared connection of the ball moss and vegetation that exists naturally in the city. This landscape ties us to the roots of historical subjugation, and is evidenced in the history of the city of Austin and the State of Texas.
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