The Gift (Postcard)
The Gift (2021) by Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez is a mixed media work in the format of a digital advertisement selling a tool formed by a pacifier and a "silver spoon" to adopting parents.
This ad draws together the ways adopted, fostered, and trafficked people people are expected to be grateful for "better situations" (most often defined through a classist idea of what a "stable" family looks like) in the face of being separated form their homelands, cultures, languages, communities, and families -- and how such enforcement of gratitude by dominant culture's view of adoption and foster care as a strictly benevolent set of practices affectively silences adopted and fostered people.
Originally published in You Are Holding This: Issue 001. Now available as a post card.
All proceeds benefit the artist’s first family in Colombia.
The Gift (2021) by Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez is a mixed media work in the format of a digital advertisement selling a tool formed by a pacifier and a "silver spoon" to adopting parents.
This ad draws together the ways adopted, fostered, and trafficked people people are expected to be grateful for "better situations" (most often defined through a classist idea of what a "stable" family looks like) in the face of being separated form their homelands, cultures, languages, communities, and families -- and how such enforcement of gratitude by dominant culture's view of adoption and foster care as a strictly benevolent set of practices affectively silences adopted and fostered people.
Originally published in You Are Holding This: Issue 001. Now available as a post card.
All proceeds benefit the artist’s first family in Colombia.
The Gift (2021) by Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez is a mixed media work in the format of a digital advertisement selling a tool formed by a pacifier and a "silver spoon" to adopting parents.
This ad draws together the ways adopted, fostered, and trafficked people people are expected to be grateful for "better situations" (most often defined through a classist idea of what a "stable" family looks like) in the face of being separated form their homelands, cultures, languages, communities, and families -- and how such enforcement of gratitude by dominant culture's view of adoption and foster care as a strictly benevolent set of practices affectively silences adopted and fostered people.
Originally published in You Are Holding This: Issue 001. Now available as a post card.
All proceeds benefit the artist’s first family in Colombia.