Beatriz Guzman Velasquez is an artist, poet, independent curator and educator based in Edinburgo, Texas. With a focus on collage, metaphorical objects and language consider contemporary issues of boundaries, visibility and memorialization. 
Guzman Velasquez forms part of Poets Against Walls, a collective aimed to cultivate social change through poetry.     

Guzman Velasquez addresses the personal and collective trauma experienced at the borderlands, a region that falls between the U.S. and Mexico.  In the gathering of social and archival material, she speaks on the intimate encounter of bodies such as fabric remnants, found objects, newspapers, online articles, databases and dictionary fragments.  As they edge each other and at times with the personal, their decontextualization and recontextualization provide a failure in signification that mirrors our contemporary time and is an undefined resistance to fixed positions.