Perez-Tlatenchi’s multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of migration, cultural exchange, and collective memory through photography, painting, printmaking, collage, and installation. Grounded in the intercultural landscape of Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, his work draws from diasporic histories, urban visual culture, archival material, and personal experience to consider how identities, histories, and communities are continually shaped by movement, displacement, and exchange.

Collage operates as both a material process and a conceptual framework within Perez-Tlatenchi’s practice. Through layering, fragmentation, and accumulation, he brings together varied images, narratives, and visual languages to explore the complex relationships among place, memory, and representation. As the artist explains, his work is driven by an interest in “layering knowledge, circulating images, segmenting landscapes, and fragmenting compositions,” producing spaces in which multiple histories and perspectives meet. His layered compositions invite viewers to consider how cultural memory is constructed, circulated, and continually transformed across generations and geographies.

Our Foundation’s grant, together with residency support from The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, will provide Perez-Tlatenchi with dedicated studio time and resources to deepen his research and develop a new body of ambitious, large-scale work. This support will allow him to expand the physical and conceptual scale of his practice while entering a period of focused experimentation, reflection, and long-term artistic development.