Monaco exhibits, José Guadalupe Garza: Mala Noche

Monaco is pleased to debut Mala Noche, a new body of work by artist
José Guadalupe Garza. Mala Noche will open with a reception on Friday, January 19, from
7:00 – 10:00pm.
Mala Noche examines the visibility and invisibility of the Latin/a/o/x experience in the United States
— its tensions, contradictions and complexities. Images of celebrities, “Mexican” food, album covers,
and cleaning products are abstracted, blurred and arranged mise-en-scène to demonstrate ways in
which the body politic and mainstream media villainize, marginalize, and idealize our collective and
individual histories and culture.
Mala Noche takes its title from the 1985 film by Gus Van Sant and the fictional drug cartel that
appears in the American television show, CSI: Miami.
José Guadalupe Garza is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. His studio practice
utilizes cinema and popular culture as conceptual frameworks to examine ways in which histories
are continually constructed and reconstructed. Cinematic and historical events are conflated to
create anachronistic narratives and spaces, in which viewers are confronted with issues of identity,
representation, desire, violence, sexuality and consent.
Mala Noche will run through February 9, 2018. Monaco is open each Saturday during the exhibition
run from 12:00 – 6:00pm.