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Xico González
born Los Angeles, California 1975
Salam
2019
augmented reality digital print on paper
González's augmented reality (AR) prints exemplify an emergent do-it-yourself practice using free AR technologies to enhance the viewer's experience of a work. When users digitally connect to an enhanced print, the image activates an overlaid video recording. Salam triggers an oral history with Mexican Pakistani activist Saeeda Islam. She discusses the beauty of the Islamic faith and how she feels that her identity as both a Muslim and Mexican are under attack. The substrate image, or the image the animation overlays, features a recurring figure in González's work: a young Palestinian girl brandishing a peace sign.
Museum purchase through the Lichtenberg Family Foundation, 2020.19.4 |