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EPHE-MORIZED

Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery presents EPHE-MORIZED

The selected artists and their works highlight how time is both a creator and destroyer. Instead of working against time, hoping to reach immortality in subjectivity and/or material, these artists choose to use the inevitable destruction and distortion of time to challenge and/or forfeit to change.

Each work holds power in narration and documentation of fleeting histories and speculative futurities, of ephemeral material, of growth overtime, of intangible experiences, and of isolated instances. This exhibition expands on how time can produce good, bad, hardness, softness, relief, grief, and nothingness all at once.

Participating Artists:

gene aguilar magaña is an interdisciplinary artist and settler working on Tongva territory “Los Angeles” and the “Inland Empire”. Their work reconsiders alternative possibilities of water and city planning through earthenware, 3D modeling, video documentations and plant installations. Through their research of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, aguilar magaña’s current focus is on earthenware irrigation systems and the distribution of seeds (California native plants) to center the urgency of community led land remediation and water conservation. They received their Bachelors in Studio Art from California State University Dominguez Hills and is an MFA candidate in Ceramics at UCLA.

Emmanuel Camacho Larios is a first-generation, borderless, queer interdisciplinary Artist residing in the Inland Empire. Emme's art serves as a biographical interference and reclamation of his and his communities' intersecting and evolving identities. Rituals, shifting weights, decay, and mourning are underlying threads in their practice. His current exploration has been blurring the lines between fictional supernatural realms and realities due to migration and marginalization (due to all hetero-white structures). Where do the heavens, the cosmos, alienness, a bed, an inter-dimensional ship, a womb, a carcass, a heart, anonymity, celestial maps, and phone calls collide with the realities of marginalization due to political borders and structures?
Emmanuel graduated with his BA in Art Studio and Chicana/o studies from the University of California Davis in 2023. His work has been presented in galleries across California including UC Davis, the Inland Empire, and Los Angeles.

Annie Wold is an interdisciplinary artist that works primarily in clay and ink. Their work imbues motifs onto non-stagnant mediums that are in constant flux, or living. Even after the canvas expires, traces will be found on bones, in ashes, in dirt, on earth. The work is a trace; it’s an exploration of things that challenge, deny, or affirm our interconnectedness. Seeking to highlight the beauty and ephemerality of complex push and pull, non-linear relationships. What is presented is a proliferated sense of existence where wholeness (figuration) as typically actualized is not an option. The work aims to shift the locus of identity away from the physical corporal body—highlighting the being, a being, or rather, your beings relationship to its hyper enmeshed existence.

JungMok Yi (they/them) navigates the complexities of “truths” through their transdisciplinary art practice, weaving personal narratives with collective history. They graduated from Tyler School of Art and Architecture with a Master’s in Sculpture in 2020.