In Transit/Liquid Highway by Scherezade Garcia

Scherezade Garcia’s work inhabits a baroque universe. A natural storyteller, she uses drawing, printmaking, painting, installation, and other media to create contemporary allegories about history, colonization, and politics.

September 03, 2015

Found objects, including life jackets, inner tubes, suitcases, mattresses, tents, umbrellas, religious icons, and newspapers, are transformed within her work. She has explored the consequences of migration, beliefs about salvation, and both optimistic and cynical notions of paradise. A recurring theme in her works is the very difficult experience of migration, and the feeling of being afloat, unmoored. Her works reflect on the losses and gains of emigration.