Aldo Cervantes

Untitled, 2020 (CAR)

Archival Pigment Print

Aldo Cervantes (b. 1997) is a Mexican-American artist born and raised in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. He immigrated to the United States at an early age and began documenting his surroundings on both sides of the border as a response to the emotional baggage of being a first-generation immigrant. He received a BA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego where he began to experiment with the archive. Inspired by his family snapshots, Cervantes looks into ideas of postmemory, migration, and labor while exploring his family history and its search for a sense of home and a brighter future. He currently lives and works between San Diego, Los Angeles, and Tecate; documenting his family, objects, and spaces that hold memories and are in dialogue with the past and present.

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