In Asheville, and Across the U.S., We Must Find Ways to “Build a Bridge Where a Wall Stands”
by Jackie Mansky | May 5, 2025
“See yourself in it. Don’t hide,” the artist Pedro Lasch urged a packed audience at the Asheville Art Museum last week. He was discussing Coatlicue & Las Meninas: The Stanford Edition (2007/2025), his ten-foot black mirror merging Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas (1656) and the Mexica deity Coatlicue (1400s), which was on view upstairs.
The artwork was commissioned for “What Can Become of Us?,” a year-long collaboration between the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies (IAJS) and Zócalo Public Square that aims to foster a national conversation around migration, America’s diverse communities, and how people come together across differences. FOR MORE
