About this Event
Join us on Saturday, August 8 from 12:00- 1:00 PM at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) for an engaging conversation between artists Eva Aguila and artist Cielo Saucedo in connection with Aguila’s current exhibition Eva Aguila: The Foundation of the Harvest / El Cimiento de la Cosecha on view at MOAH through August 30. Aguila and Saucedo will discuss their respective art practices and the role of the archive in their work.
About the Exhibition
explores the continued impact of the United States’ dependence on Mexican migrant labor, using an intimate installation inclusive of domestic objects, vintage family photographs, archival materials, and video testimony to trace a direct line from the mid-20th century Bracero Program to today's H-2A visa system. The exhibition honors the resilience of Aguila’s family, who transformed harsh working conditions into generational wealth, and the activism of organizers like Aguila’s uncle Jorge Campos Aguiñiga who fought for laborers' rights.
This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
About Eva Aguila
Eva Aguila (b. 1983, Los Angeles, California) is a Mexican American interdisciplinary artist working in video, sound, and installation. Born in Los Angeles as a first-generation American, Aguila centers her practice on oral histories of the Mexican diaspora, particularly drawing from her ancestral communities in rural Michoacán. Her research-driven work engages with personal archives and the materiality of memory, examining the complexities of the Latiné experience. Aguila holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. Recent exhibitions and performances include the Vincent Price Art Museum (2025), SUR:biennial (2023), and CURRENT:LA FOOD (2019), with additional presentations in Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
About Cielo Saucedo
Cielo Saucedo (1993, Whittier, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Their work encompasses writing, computer-generated imagery, sculpture, and machine vision. They received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2020, and their MFA from UCLA in 2024. They were an Eyebeam Democracy Fellow (2024). Recent exhibitions of their work include presentations at the Coaxial Art Center (2025), the Armory, Pasadena for Getty PST (2024), François Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2024), Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2024), and MexiCali Biennale, the Cheech at the Riverside Museum (2023). They have given panels and lectures at NYU, UPenn, the Whitney Independent Study Program, Emily Carr University, Indiana State University, and the Sandberg Institute, among other institutions.
Image Credit: Eva Aguila, Building Home (detail), 2023/26, site-specific installation. Courtesy of the Artist.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, 665 West Lancaster Boulevard, Lancaster, United States
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