Trigger Finger 1.0
2020
Janggay nail (origin: Tawi-Tawi, Philippines), servo, pan/tilt robot
6 x 2.5 x 1.5"
Trigger Finger 2.0
2020
Janggay nail (origin: Tawi-Tawi, Philippines), servo, pan/tilt robot
6 x 2.5 x 2.5"
In the re-rendering of gesture from analogue (body) to digital (robot), Garcia’s pursuit is to explore the notion of translation and untranslatability that occurs in the act of migration. Drawing from diasporic ontologies, she addresses the inherent loss that occurs in the migratory process; she considers losses as ruptures that have the potential to be filled or as glitches in the paradigm. By simply insisting and embracing these losses, refusal is taking place; ruptures and glitches become modes of her grief. Garcia’s inquiry frames these technological spaces as ethnographic refusal, rejecting colonial legacies of cultural competency that relentlessly confront bodies of the diaspora.
Exhibition History: Montclair State University Galleries (2023); Pintô International (2022)