Acrylic wall paint on canvas, fabric, iron-on transfers
8 x 10 feet (x3) & 13 x 10 feet (x4) / 244 x 305 cm (x3) & 396 x 305 cm (x4)
2021 - 2026

Me pongo el sol al hombro y el mundo es amarillo (I put the sun on my shoulder and the world turns yellow) is a series of seven curtains, hung from the ceiling of the exhibition space using tubes in sleeves sewn into the fabric. They are large pieces, with three measuring 10 feet high by 8 feet wide, and four measuring 10 feet high by 13 feet wide.

The series is named in reference to a lyric from “No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá” (I’m not from here, nor from there) by Facundo Cabral. The work is not a direct response to the song, but the images and narrative do provide counterpoints and a language to speak some of the ideas. The song represents for many, a hymn of its own to the stranger in which life, sometimes without planning it, turn us. Many are the sensations, especially nostalgia, that invade the return home with the intention of suddenly recovering the past and the emotions that have shaped life. 

Me pongo el sol al hombro y el mundo es amarillo tells the story of human migration, not any one story about any given border but the story of all people who have travelled from a homeland in search or escape.