Michelle Campos Castillo | Terremoto
July 24 — September 12, 2020
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Listen to Campos Castillo’s Interview with Ckua’s Tony King
Read Adam Whitford’s review of Terremoto on Galleries West
Campos Castillo In Conversation with Zachary Ayotte & Christina Battle
Terremoto is a comic arts project by Michelle Campos Castillo based on the Campos-Castillo family’s shared memory of the catastrophe and trauma of the earthquake that hit San Salvador (El Salvador) in 1986. Campos Castillo has drawn out her recollections of the events on the gallery walls and collected recorded interviews from her family to explore the impact of surviving a major natural disaster together and how memory differs and overlaps.
Exhibition Text by Zachary Ayotte:
Interviews:
Interview 1 - Cecilia Castillo: Interview with Cecilia about her recollection of the 1986 earthquake in San Salvador.
Interview 2 - Milagro Campos: Interview with Milagro about her recollection of the 1986 earthquake in San Salvador.
Michelle Campos Castillo is a Salvadoran visual artist living in Edmonton. She has been the recipient of several public art commissions from the City of Edmonton, including Platanos, a set of three sculptures on permanent display at Belvedere Transit Centre, and is currently producing artwork for the LRT Valley Line in the west end of the city. A frequent collaborator with artist Vivek Shraya, she has provided art direction and photography for Vivek's Trisha photo series, graphic design for her Lambda Literary Award-nominated book, What I Love About Being QUEER, and VS Books, the artist's imprint with Arsenal Pulp Press.
This initiative has been made possible with funding assistance from the Edmonton Arts Council’s Connections & Exchanges Initiatives Grant. This program supports artistic experiments, organizational development, strategic planning and other activities that connect to the Aims, Ambitions ad Actions outlined in Connections & Exchanges: A 10-Year Plan to Transform Arts and Heritage in Edmonton.
