Form 53: Brimstone
An Installation by Belén Victoria
September 14 - 28, 2024
AUSTIN, TX — Coronado Print Room proudly presents Form 53: Brimstone, the first print of Belén Victoria’s ongoing Paperwork series. Created single-handely in her home studio over the past several months, the artist used a glass baren to apply pressure on a 3 x 4 inch unmounted linoleum block, vertically stamping it 550 times on a 20-foot long sheet of paper until the block’s burlap backing was saturated with ink.
Form 53: Brimstone explores how currency rewires humanity, twisting the natural instinct to help the needy into one of exploitative cannibalism, reflected in the global refugee crisis and generations of forced, perilous migration. This work bears witness to the horrific human trafficking incident in Texas that killed 53 unsuspecting people from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala in the sweltering summer of 2022. A group of children and a pregnant woman were among the survivors, further echoing the tragedy as one of biblical proportions. The 20-foot linocut print on masa paper is a painful snapshot of humanity’s current state, a tug at the eyelids to inhale the stench.
May the dead and the survivors find peace beyond the darkness.
Read more about the 2022 San Antonio migrant deaths.
Other print works by the artist will also be on view.
About the Artist
Belén Victoria is a Coastal Bend native and self-taught linocut printmaker, serving as conduit between thoughts of transformation, displacement, the elements, and paper. Her tactile relationship to the block is intimate, as she sketches her designs directly and freehand, trusting the details to surface in the meditation of the carve, then inks by brayer and prints on washi with a baren. Forever fascinated by the human condition, the longtime Austin resident holds a BA in English with a sociology minor from UT and a humanities-focused MLA from St. Edward’s. Reverent of the call yet childlike in wonder, Belén continues to experiment, observe, and evolve through printmaking and the community it inspires.
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Reception
Saturday, September 21, 2024
6-9 PM
Exhibition Dates
September 14 - 28, 2024
Gallery Hours
Saturdays 12-4 PM or by appointment
Address
Coronado Print Room
4201 S Congress Ave, Ste 323
Austin, TX 78745
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Image Credit: Form 53: Brimstone by Belén Victoria, Coronado Print Room 2024.
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