Rounding out a yearlong artist residency through Tarrant County College–South Campus, Jessica Fuentes will debut her new series under the southern cross | bajo la cruz del sur in a virtual exhibition through The Carillon Gallery’s instagram account: @the_carillon.

This body of work combines photographs taken from 2001 through 2020 while on trips to Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, west Texas, and Galveston. Each piece is digitally layered and references childhood summers spent with grandparents, religious and spiritual iconography, and places of significance to the artist in her own learning and understanding of Latina/o/x art and culture. In these dreamy compositions, time and memory are condensed. The title evokes both the prominent constellation in the southern hemisphere and the experience of growing up in the South in the United States.