Vincent Price Art Museum New Voices Exhibit 2026
4/25/26 - 6/13/26
By interpreting lived realities (drug usage, the drug war, low income criminalization, racist institutions, etc.) under US systems of oppression, this work appropriates dominant symbols and aesthetics that seek to question and destablize. The work turns the premier symbol and colors of US American hegemony on its head by displaying dime bags/ bolsa de toston in a flag arrangement.
The dime bag serves two symbolic purposes: on one hand, it is a literal representation of the people’s coping mechanism from living under oppressive cultures; on the other hand, the plastic (polyethylene) bags symbolize our cultures’ dependence and obsession with plastic– a cultural and industrial addiction. As polyethylene is produced and consumed, it harms both the land we inhabit and our individual/ collective health.