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Saúl Hernández-Vargas

Houston, TX

CHARLA: Long, endless, sharp, that line / Larga, inabarcable, afilada, esa línea

This radio-essay explores the materiality of the US-Mexico Border—drawn in 1849 by a binational group of engineers and surveyors. Departing from the archive of this experience, this conversation will struggle with documents produced and written by that group of historical agents. This radio-essay aims to undermine the authority of the border, understanding it as a line, as a drawing. And if this is a drawing, it can be, radically, redraw it, reshape it, erase it.

Bio

Saúl Hernández-Vargas (Oaxaca, México, 1982). Visual artist, editor, and non-fiction writer. His work operates in the conjunction of academic research, literature, and art practice. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and he is a PhD Candidate at the University of Houston (UH). Individually, he has shown in places such as Lawndale Art Center (Houston, Tx, 2019), University of California, San Diego (SD, California, 2017), and Ediciones Plan B (Oaxaca, México, 2009). He was an artist in residency at Nagoya University of Arts (Japan), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (España), and FieldWork (Marfa, TX). For 6 years, he has served as an editor for numerous publications in México, founding projects as Yagular Magazine and sur+ Ediciones. His first book, Te preparé humo, was published in 2009 (UNAM, México). Additionally, he also worked as a professional lithography printer in the Taller de Artes Plásticas Rufino Tamayo and Taller La Chicana, in Oaxaca, MX, his home town.