3-Minute Strike
Christian Casas is a first-generation Cuban-American artist, curator, and educator from Hialeah, Florida. He creates gatherings of found objects, video, set and sound design, familial photographs, pyrography, ceramics, printmaking, and painting to explore intergenerational memory, selfhood, and erasure within a diasporic experience. This first published volume of his work features the infamous image of Elian Gonzalez repeated page after page, the image growing duller and duller as the series progresses, laying bare the effect of repetition and memory. The book includes over 90 pages of risograph-printed reproductions of artist originals, a hand-written artist statement, and image index in the back. Each copy of the limited edition artist publication includes a hand-drawn crayon coloring page created by the artist along with a pack of crayons, inviting the viewer to complete the second coloring page. Reproductions in the book represent a large body of originals that utilize watercolor, oil pastel, graphite, concrete poetry, video, and steel-plate monoprint.
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