2022

Sub Rosa: La Casa de Beatriz Cabrera is a multimedia room installation representing a conversation taking place between the artist and her mamá, exposing family lineage, the role of caretaker, and motherhood.

Visitors enter through curtains lined with roses on the two long sides of the room. At the two short ends of the bed are the only solid walls, each of which displays a wall-size quilted mask. Through the eye openings of each mask, visitors see video footage of my mother’s eyes and my eyes searching, evoking in the viewer the feeling of entering someone else’s dream.

Pixelated Rose Garden, 2021-2022 (center) Quilt made of secondhand synthetic and plant-dyed fabric, cotton thread and batting, bed

Mamá, 2022 (right wall) HD Digital 5 min. video loop, secondhand plant-dyed fabric, cotton thread and batting

Hija, 2022 (left wall) HD Digital 5 min. video loop, secondhand plant-dyed fabric, cotton thread and batting