Carlos Motta – We Got Each Other’s Back

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

November 7th, 2020–February 14th, 2021

Carlos Motta— in collaboration with artists Heldáy de la Cruz, Julio Salgado, and Edna Vázquez

We Got Each Other’s Back is a three-part, multi-channel video installation featuring portraits of queer artists and activists in the United States who are or have been openly undocumented, and who are producing work to denounce historic and present-day broken US immigration policies.

For this project we worked with the artist to design three discrete spaces in PICA’s main gallery that featured multi-channel video installations. Carpeted platforms were used to delineate space while not creating walls between artists or between narratives. Audience members were given headphones that they could plug in at each station, addressing safety concerns amidst Covid-19.

Curated by Kristan Kennedy and Roya Amirsoleymani. Images by Evan LaLonde.

Exhibition design by Visitor Projects.