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Ester Hernandez
born Dinuba, California 1944
Sun Raid
2008
screenprint on paper
Twenty-six years after her original, Hernandez reimagines her classic Sun Mad poster as a condemnation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In addition to changing the title from Sun Mad to Sun Raid, she outfits the calavera (skeleton) with an ICE wrist monitor and a huipil, a traditional indigenous garment. This latter reference suggests how indigenous people from Mexico and Central America represent a segment of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Hernandez issued this print at a time when the George W. Bush administration was being widely criticized for its high level of workplace raids.
Gift of the artist, 2020.12.2 |