April 22 – 26
Reception: Friday, April 25, 6-8pm
Location: Gallery 7, Humanities Building, 455 N Park St, Madison, WI
Nepantla is an honoring of Moyotl’s undocumented family’s history and labor. Although her research is centered around her family’s narrative, it reflects the shared experiences of four million undocumented Mexican immigrants. Moyotl utilizes labor-intensive processes like printmaking and weaving to directly reference a history and culture of labor of working with one’s hands. The act of weaving into family photos with conceptually charged materials allows her to represent her family without revealing their identity. Materials such as hoja de maíz, hoja de palma, and cotton become important as a connection to culture, identity, and labor. Weaving becomes important in Moyotl’s artwork, not only as the physical construction of it, but as cultural reclamation, Ancestral reconnection, and a way of decolonizing her practice.
Jackelin Espinosa Moyotl (Born 2000 in Huejotzingo, Mexico) is a multi-disciplinary artist. She received her BFA in Printmaking and a minor in Art History from Herron School of Art and Design in 2023. She has exhibited in Newfields Indianapolis Museum of Art, Munzón Gallery in Long Beach, Pilsen Art and Community House in Chicago, and in El Paso Print.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Art MFA Qualifier Exhibition season continues with Jackelin Espinosa Moyotl’s art exhibition next week. The qualifier solo exhibitions are presented by the graduate students during their fourth semester as the evaluation review of their creative work to qualify for advancement in the MFA program. Come view the work and research by our newest cohort of developing artists!