Hazel Batrezchavez

hazel batrezchavez (b.1994) on Stolen Land of Shawnee Tribe/Shelby,OH is an artist, activist, poet and organizer whose praxis revolves around creating spaces of agency by centering anti-colonial gestures, inverting practices of authority, and critiquing violence related to skin color, and language. Often their work bears witness to their families generational experiences of migration, isolation and resistance and moves freely between performance, poetry, large-scale sculpture, sound-video installation, and textiles.

Most recent hazel batrezchavez has been working with Szu Han Ho and Bernadine Hernandez in the Fronteristxs Collective to end migrant detention and abolish the carceral state.

Residency/Fellowship

2019 Story Maps Fellowship

Website

hazel-batrezchavez.squarespace.com

Location

Albuquerque, NM USA

LONGING/ BELONGING // ALUMNI STATEMENT

In November 2019, I wrote this poem At The Crossing for SFAI140. 
I’ve been invited here to reflect on it now:
Under These Unprecedented Times 
When my relatives are still incarcerated in prisons, jails and detention 
centers- with little to no PPE
Under These Unprecedented Times 
When my relatives are still being disappeared and silenced 
Under These Unprecedented Times 
When my relatives are still thirsty for running water   
Under These Unprecedented Times 
When my relatives still tell us not to run or else we might be mistaken and shot
There isn’t much to reflect on because not much has changed 
It’s Still and always will be By Any Means Necessary

– hazel batrezchavez

SFAI140 Video Presentation

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