Deborah Aschheim: Bienvenidos Los Presidentes is a multidisciplinary exhibition about collective memory and mythology that blends archival research, community interviews, and a broad range of source material with drawings, photographs, and video.
Artist Deborah Aschheim is interested in the cultural mythology of the 1960s and early 1970s and for the exhibition Bienvenidos Los Presidentes she will focus on the visits of Presidents John F. Kennedy (JFK), Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), and Richard Nixon to Mexico. President Kennedy traveled to Mexico City in 1962 to meet with Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos as part of Kennedy . . .
