presente is an ongoing series that intervenes directly on the landscape to declare "presente", a cry of protest spoken in Mexican and Mexican American marches to validate the lives of politicized identities who have been murdered. Guzman Velasquez walks into site-specific geographical locations as safe spaces, a wildlife refuge or a residency for people of color, where her writings are placed on the landscape to harmonize the history of the region.
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presente (sal del rey), 2020
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presente (lazuli residency), 2019
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rajados we die, 2019