Dulce Soledad Ibarra: los pobres comen tan rico
Dulce Soledad Ibarra, Bolsote (wearable no. 6 – green apron), 2022-2023. Bolsas de mercado, thread, buttons. 43 x 45 inches. Courtesy of Dulce Soledad Ibarra. © Dulce Soledad Ibarra.
Photography by Tatiana Mata.
Dulce Soledad Ibarra: los pobres comen tan rico
Community Gallery, September 12 – December 12, 2024
In los pobres comen tan rico (the poor eat so richly) artist and activist Dulce Soledad Ibarra draws connections between access to affordable, culturally appropriate foods and food vending culture in Southern California. Using Mexican market bags, or bolsotes, Ibarra creates embroidered wearable aprons featuring beans, tomatoes, corn, and nopales. One bolsote features a multicolored umbrella, or sombra, signifying the enduring but threatened presence of this cultural icon within the Southern California landscape.
A portion of this exhibition is presented in the Museum’s front vestibule, which the artist has temporarily transformed into a greenhouse for growing the plants featured in the apron paintings: beans, tomatoes, corn, and nopales.
