We are honored with the thoughtful essay written by Javier Arellano Vences for the US Latinx Art Forum. In his essay titlted "Presence in Absence: Verónica Gaona’s “Spanning Worlds”"Javier reads sharply on the use of material as an extension of the narrative and reveals the underpinning of the work to the reader.
"Rather than reproducing clear visual or auditory representations of harm carried out against migrants, Gaona employs narrative restraints that see her selectively and pointedly signal to the correlation between labor and hope..."
For the full essay please follow this link
January 12, 2026
