About

Her works are inspired by Mexican landscape, indigenous ideas, and mythology, and are in international museum collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art. For this exhibition, Peña Salinas has created new works during her stay at Nagano prefecture, Japan, starting with her research into the figure of Chalchiuhtlicue (1) and taking inspiration from hikes around the mountains in search of natural objects for her sculptures, and from the Japanese folklore story “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter” (2).

―Research, travel and the process of collecting inform my practice. The work unfolds …