Future Exhibitions

Strand Gallery
October 11, 2025 - January 4, 2026

Gil Rocha
Cáscaras y Leftovers: Mapping Memories for Tomorrow

Gil Rocha’s exhibition, Cáscaras y Leftovers: Mapping Memories for Tomorrow, explores the U.S.-Mexico border as a site of transformation, complexity, and contradiction, where issues of migration, identity, and survival intersect. Grounded in rasquache aesthetics his work examines the act of crossing - physically, culturally, and psychologically - while challenging fixed notions of identity, place, and belonging. Using everyday materials such as signs, beer cans, plastic bags, and faded photographs, Rocha repurposes discarded objects to tell both personal and collective stories of struggle and endurance. These objects, imbued with the weight of border life, are transformed into symbols of survival and resilience. In Rocha’s work, the border becomes a fluid space, constantly shaped by political, social, and environmental forces, which he describes as “a dynamic place where lives, cultures, and histories converge and evolve.”  Rocha invites viewers to reconsider the border as not just a line of division, but a space of complexity and possibility where geography intersects lives, cultures, and histories.

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