Y TUS PAPELES? / VERIFIED BY PROOF

"Y TUS PAPELES? / VERIFIED BY PROOF"   
Curated by Miguel A. Aragón & Eddy López   
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 4:30 PM - 6 PM​
The Art Gallery at the College of Staten Island, Center for the Arts, 1P-112
​2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314
EXHIBIT RUNS: FEBRUARY, 3 - MARCH 7, 2025
CSI ART GALLERY CUNY

Every day, hundreds of thousands of people cross borders. At these crossings, governments ask individuals to present papers for verification of migration status, documents that restrict entry to those individuals lucky enough to be verified by proof.
For migrants without papers, the mundane question “Show me your papers/ A ver, y tus papeles?” is not mundane, but rather an impossible interrogation that forces these individuals to risk their lives in an effort to avoid being verified. Having papers, therefore, becomes a matter of life or death.
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Exhibiting artists: Golnar Adili, Carlos Barberena, Adriana Barrios, Tulu Bayar, Pamela Dodds, J. Leigh Garcia, Marco Hernandez, Juana Estrada-Hernández, Eddy A. López, Emma Nishimura, Patricia Villalobos-Echevarría, Marco Sánchez