Migration Letters in Spanglish is travelling art installation” by Colombian visual artist Alejandro García-Lemos. Based on the simple concept that learning the alphabet is the most basic tool of any formal education, Migration Letters has started as an active dialogue between the ever increasing wave of mostly Latino immigrants to the Southeastern United States and the already established and quite conservative community of Southerners. The installation tackles the fact that almost everyone in the American South has a migratory history with the exception of the very few Native Americans living in the region.
Formally, the installation consists of 26 triangular-shaped boxes hanging and swivelling from the ceiling. Each box presents a letter of the alphabet in English. The main side of each box has a mirror with the printed letter of the alphabet followed by ideas, concepts, issues, politically incorrect words and misconceptions related to issues of migration—each of... More > which beginning with that letter.< Less
