Lot C

Ernesto Cabral de Luna is a Mexican lens-based artist working with archival imagery and his own photographs to explore themes of diasporic identity, memory, absence and displacement. His image transfers on scrap material such as copper, broken glass and corrugated metal are poignant commentaries on immigration and self-reinvention – challenging the notion of ownership over memories that are not one’s own. Cabral de Luna likens the act of an image transfer to the result of emigration – a displaced semblance of the original, each marked by distortions produced through every translation and displacement.