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Smithsonian Insider. “A Lesson in ‘Rasquachismo’ Art: Chicano Aesthetics & the ‘Sensibilities of the Barrio,’” January 31, 2017. https://insider.si.edu/2017/01/lesson-rasquachismo-chicano-asthetics-taste-underdog/.

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Orange County Register. “Quinceañeras Blend Tradition, Business,” August 26, 2013. https://www.ocregister.com/2013/08/26/quinceaeras-blend-tradition-business/.

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Instagram. “Esteban Castillo on Instagram: ‘I Felt a Slight Breeze This Morning so Naturally I Went out and Bought All the Pan Dulce for Breakfast! 🥰🙊.’” Accessed May 12, 2020. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ZwryBneEt/.

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Sanchez Kane 

VAST GRAVEYARD OF THE MISSING LOS ANGELES USA

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art

Date: November 2 2017

This exhibition focuses on the theme of absence and its alterations of factors.

Underlining the footsteps represented in a space of moving statistics across countries questioning morality, justice and even destiny.

Migration and movement of hearts and bodies.

Within a raw reality hold by power and abuse who are the main protagonists of the scene of freedom.

A narrative-threatening journey depended on a dream that sometimes disappear at the borderline with thousands deaths.

The panorama concerning those future dreams and it’s first dialogue with the world hoping to flow without fear.

Re-define the languages of the struggle, underline by a new possibility.

Finding the hidden distortion or brokenness of truth shaping our identity within a real or imaginary border that exists against or around us.

Incorporating the natural rhythm of the chaotic present impact on our culture.

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 Instagram. “Guadalupe Galindo on Instagram: ‘🍒April🦋.’” Accessed May 12, 2020. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cfnAKjiJw/.

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Instagram. “Esteban Castillo on Instagram: ‘I’m Making These Super Easy Beer Braised Chicken Tinga Tacos over on My IG Stories Today! 🌮🙊 🌮 Come Follow along! Full Recipe Link Is in My….’” Accessed May 12, 2020. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_5VFGMnl_J/.

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Instagram. “JENNY RUIZ on Instagram: ‘A Brand New Episode of “A Day in the Life of a 69” Drops TONIGHT 8pm PST on My Vlog Channel 🖤🖤 We’re Finally Putting an END to the Rumors!😭….’” Accessed May 12, 2020. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2fJLyIH6Eq/.

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Photo by Travis Gumbs, courtesy of Maroon World. https://remezcla.com/features/culture/opening-ceremony-colabora-con-mexico/

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TAMARA SANTIBAÑEZ. “Selected Work.” Accessed May 12, 2020. http://tamarasantibanez.com/ballpoint.

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Instagram. “José Hernandez’s Instagram Profile Post: ‘I Had Been Following @kelianne for a While before Being Asked to Stand in Front of Her Lens. This Was so Unreal and Truly Grateful. Her….’” Accessed May 12, 2020. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wXeO7Aa1e/.

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Reynaldo Rivera, Olga la plaza. 1992 Courtesy of the artist and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York/Los Angeles

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Guadalupe Rosales

Vision, Field of. Field of Vision - The Town I Live In, 2017. https://vimeo.com/234735874.

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Empire Vampire Series - Barbra Colderon

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Sin La “S” (2017) Credit: Andrea Rampone. https://www.dailyxtra.com/jose-villalobos-queer-art-toxic-male-171864

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To be rasquache is to posit a bawdy, spunky consciousness, to seek to subvert and turn ruling paradigms upsidedown. It is a witty, irreverent and impertinent posture that recodes and moves outside established boundaries. To be rasquache is to be down, but not out, fregado pero no jodido. Responding to a direct relationship with the material level of existence or subsistence is what engenders a rasquache attitude of survival and inventiveness.

(Tomás YbarraFrausto, cited in Mendoza Aviña, 2016, p. 468) 

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Altar for La Virgen de Guadalupe, Hector Sanchez and Roger Garcia, Marfa, Texas, 1997. (Photo by Nerin Kadribegovic)