Solo MFA Thesis Exhibition: La plentitud es un rasgo de multitudes (Plentitude is the trace of multitudes) USC Roski Graduate Building 1262 Palmetto Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 Opening reception: Mar 22, 6 - 9pm Exhibition is on view Mar 23 - 30, 2024 Gallery hours: Wed - Sat, 12 - 5pm La plenitud es un rasgo de multitudes (Plenitude is the trace of multitudes) honors Jessica Carolina González’s archives of the bloodline in a manner that shelters familial histories from surveillance and holds space for private feelings and imaginings. This exhibition includes an artist book, video, chemigrams, and installations that are adapted from footage taken and materials sourced from El Salvador, Houston, and Los Angeles. A featured three channel video installation explores diasporic reimaginings of rural and urban landscapes, as well as cycles of life and death. Plantain leaves in the exhibition connect journeys of migration, while Mordançage’d photographs flirt with the ephemeral and the enduring to account for collective practices of living. An artist book crafted from handmade paper disembodies written records of movement, while the chemigram series demonstrate highly embodied image making. Together, these works collapse geographies and temporalities to develop a visual language that gestures towards familial ancestry, journeys of migration, and diasporic longings. Exhibition curated in collaboration with Alice Zhao, MA Curatorial Practices candidate at USC Roski. Moving image work produced with the support of The Center for Ethnographic Media Arts University of Southern California. Image: Jessica Carolina González (2023), film still from 1/3 channels in video installation Musa Paradisiaca, dimensions variable.