Yashoda Latkar: Who Says You Can’t Go Home

From La Mecha Contemporary:

“La Mecha Contemporary is proud to present the solo exhibition Who Says You Can’t Go Home  featuring works by Las Cruces Artist and a launch fellow of the gallery Yashoda Latkar.

Latkar uses self-portraiture, family photographs, performative videos, and mixed-media spiced-infused installations to explore the relationship between migration and identity. Her creations are focused on the experience of living in an in-between space, belonging ‘nowhere,’ embracing the ambivalence even though the sense of being rooted, notions of a permanent home, and traditional routines are challenged. In its ties to identity, the lack of physical access to a particular place creates a lack of stability within being and belonging in the work of Yashoda Latkar.

Yashoda Latkar is a mixed-media artist from Southern New Mexico, US. She recently completed her MFA (studio art) from New Mexico State University (Spring 2023). She has previously worked in the field of commercial photography for over a decade. Born in Mumbai, India in 1990, Latkar moved to the United States in 2019. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Rome, Italy and London, UK. Her current artwork explores the complicated realities of migration, domesticity and the push and pull of living between the two worlds.

Join us for the opening reception of  “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” on Thursday, June 29th, 2023, from 6-9 pm. Programming for this exhibition includes an artist talk by Yashoda Latkar on June 29th at 6:30 pm.”