DECLARE: Beatriz Guzman Velasquez

What does it mean to be contemporary? We asked all eleven of the artists in the show to give us their thoughts, collected in our DECLARE blog series.

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Velasquez's work explores the psychological state of the border through the metaphor of the death of an image. When asked what contemporary meant to her, she responded:

"Exploring the ways ephemerality could help us out understand our human condition."