Traveling Light (1/3)
Artist
Janire Najera
Date2017
MediumChromogenic print on aluminum
Dimensions19 11/16 × 29 1/2 in. (50 × 75 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment
Object number2018.4.1
Label TextJanire Najera is a documentary photographer and multi-media artist based in Cardiff, Wales. Her multi-disciplinary project Moving Forward, Looking Back, documenting the lives of the descendants of early Spanish settlers on the Old Spanish Trail between New Mexico and California, was featured at Chapman in 2017. The triptych displayed here was created while Najera was a Scholar-in-Residence funded through a grant from the European Union. While Travelling Light is more conceptual than her earlier portraiture, the work is still rooted in her concerns with place, heritage, and history. The grant Najera received was designed to introduce the perspectives of European-based artists to the Chapman community. Travelling Light is a commentary on the fact that we all, ultimately, come from elsewhere. ["The Border", Spring 2019]
Status
Not on view
