Canoa

Adolfo Mexiac

Canoa

Screen Print

18 x 24 inches

Edition of 54

Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia.

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In Canoa, Adolfo Mexiac draws our attention to the connections between humans and nature. He depicts a figure holding bundles of fruit in a canoe going down a river, surrounded by trees and plants. Mexiac’s practice often focuses on social and political commentary.Canoa highlightsthe relationship between indigenity and nature as well as the exploitation of agricultural workers by governments and businesses. Mexiac opposes these behaviors by creating a work that depicts nature and the indigenous person as inseparable. Canoaisa word from the language of the indigenousTaíno people that entered the Spanish language and is the derivation of the English word canoe.
_{—From research conducted by University of Notre Dame students, supervised by Dr. Tatiana Reinoza, 2021}