Quilts

Margarita Cabrera’s work continues an ongoing exploration of the defining economic relationship between the United States and Mexico. She is interested in creating an aesthetic platform for political and social-cultural consciousness as a means of survival.

I wanted to take something that is very traditionally American and blend it with something from Mexican culture. I noticed that quilts usually have a central image — like hands in the AIDS quilt — so I used an appliance as a repeated image.” Every appliance has its own quilt, again with threads exposed