Fabián Cereijido

Fabián Cereijido is an artist, educator, and writer born in Argentina, living in the US since 1984. Before moving to the US, he lived for 8 years in Mexico as an exile. His video installations, drawings, paintings, and sculptures; which have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US, Mexico and Argentina; deal with fictional trips in milk and everyday rituals. His writing in chapter books, journals and exhibition catalogs addresses the politics of context in Latin American art, current forms of censorship in art, the points of contact between Goya and Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” and art produced during the recent anti-neoliberal revolt in Latin America.

LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) bought a glass print I made! It is part of “Viaje en Leche”, a series of installations that combine milk, video, and a certain apparition. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (Lucía San Román chose it) acquired one of the installations of the series about 15 years ago. In this case, the curator who proposed the acquisition was Claudine Dixon. They bought it for their collection and it is now part of Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture A traveling exhibition of Self Portraits from the LACMA collection.

‍The print has a beautiful story related to my friendship and collaboration with my dear friend Francesco Siqueiros who, in addition to being an artist and a great person, has a historic artistic press in Los Angeles, El Nopal Press. Making an engraving somewhat related to liquid, a temporal sequence and an apparition had its challenges. Francesco, in his personal and original way, pronounced himself: “in the world of engraving, glass conjures up liquid.” It occurred to me that to involve time and preserve the surprise, I could include in the portrait a written phrase, only legible at 12 inches or less.