Chantal Peñalosa Fong will present an overview of her recent work, which takes geographic tensions at borders as a departure point, with a particular focus on the México-United States borderland. She explores phenomena such as violence, time, waiting, and suspended states, alongside ghostly narratives and places—those stories and sites that fall outside authorized versions of history. Growing up in the small Mexican border town of Tecate, Baja California, as a descendant of Chinese immigrants, she navigates the in-between zones where boundaries blur, identities merge, and memories mutate. Her process examines these moments and spaces of transition, engaging with concepts of otherness, the strange, and the unfamiliar. Through this lens, she seeks to highlight the complexities of liminal spaces and the experiences they hold.
