Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands

Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands presents new and recent work by 17 contemporary artists from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, highlighting artists’ engagements with the distinctive material culture of a region persistently underrepresented in U.S. American institutional narratives. 

Chicano artists of earlier generations authored a legacy practice of improvisatory assemblage of found objects, a practice often referred to as rasquachismo. Dialoguing with this history, Ya Hecho–or “already made”–proposes that a new generation of Borderlands artists is taking up the legacy of the Chicano readymade to create sculptural objects and installation works that meditate on the Borderlands and its materials. 

These works often present research-based inquiries into the region’s landscapes, histories, and contemporary challenges. This exhibition is guest curated by Rigoberto Luna.

Credit: Overview from museum website