Melissa Gamez Herrera | Visual Artist

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Women Workers of the Borderlands
Unskilled Labor

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Women Workers of the Borderlands
2018-


Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX


This work is a developing portrait of women workers who are involved in labor rights advocacy within the context of the maquiladora (assemblage factory) industry in Mexico. I have traveled to do research in Mexico by making photographs and through collecting recorded testimonies from the women workers I come to meet through an organization called the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras. The resulting artwork I make includes photographs, handmade books, video, sculpture and works on paper. Ultimately, my translation of the empowerment and stories of these women workers into works of art are at the center of my practice.


Melissa Gamez-Herrera © 2023