Carla Herrera-Prats:Transactions

Exhibited at:
Transactions, Gallery A402, CalArts, Valencia, California, 2003
Death and Co., Garash Gallery, Mexico City, 2003
Based on a True Story, Artists Space, New York, 2004

This video presents several conversations with Mexican masters degree candidates in the U.S. The conversations reveal Mexico's cultural dependence on the United States by exposing the production of an elite class produced from from their studying in U.S. universities. Inserting statistical data about the contemporary status of the Mexican economy, I trace a parallel between education abroad and its transformative effects on modes of production in Mexico.