Michelle Campos Castillo: Terremoto
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Latitude 53 10130 100 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 0N8
Michelle Campos Castillo, "Terremoto," 2020
Terremoto is a comic arts project by Michelle Campos Castillo based on the Campos-Castillo family’s shared memory of the catastrophe and trauma of the earthquake that hit San Salvador (El Salvador) in 1986. Michelle will draw out her recollections of the events on the gallery walls and collect recorded interviews from her family to explore the impact of surviving a major natural disaster together and how memory differs and overlaps.
Michelle Campos Castillo is a Salvadoran visual artist living in Edmonton. She has been the recipient of several public art commissions from the City of Edmonton, including Platanos, a set of three sculptures on permanent display at Belvedere Transit Centre, and is currently producing artwork for the LRT Valley Line in the west end of the city. A frequent collaborator with artist Vivek Shraya, she has provided art direction and photography for Vivek's Trisha photo series, graphic design for her Lambda Literary Award-nominated book, What I Love About Being QUEER, and VS Books, the artist's imprint with Arsenal Pulp Press.
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