Photo by Dranat Vazquez

Verónica Gaona is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist. Motivated largely by social, cultural, and political circumstances, Gaona uses truck-found metal, building materials, and residues of violence to reflect on notions of architecture and migration. Gaona reveals characteristics of diaspora such as opacity, transnationality, and impermanence to redress traditional approaches to memorialization. Her artwork exists at the intersection of photography, sculpture, installation and performance, bringing to the foreground labor and spatial issues.