Veni, Vidi, Vici

Griselda Rosas's exhibition, Veni, Vidi, Vici, presents multidisciplinary works that resist binaries, inviting viewers into layered allegories, histories, and personal experiences. Using a wide range of materials and methods—faux ostrich skin, recycled grain-sacks, embroidery, watercolor and large-scale, charcoal on paper drawings—she highlights the tensions between play, intimacy, and the narratives we inherit. The exhibition's title, "Veni, Vidi, Vici," meaning "I came, I saw, I conquered," adapts the historic Latin phrase to recall both its military origins and its contemporary use as a declaration of individual triumph, prompting a reflection on histories of domination and the enduring influence of victory-driven language in shaping culture and identity. Inherited memory, themes of nurture and intergenerational exchange emerge through Rosas' response to her son Fernando's drawings. Rosas enlarges and transforms these sketches into monumental, often monstrous, mixed media or charcoal renderings—a process that echoes the distortions and shifts in perspective that shape stories of war as they are retold across generations. Rosas' works reclaim the language of conquest through a distinctly intersectional feminist lens. Her embroidery becomes a mode of historic correction—repairing, revising, and subverting colonial visual language—while her textiles function as repositories of Indigenous knowledge often omitted from written archives.