Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas are an artist duo. Currently living in Portland, Oregon where both are professors at Pacific Northwest College of Art, they have been active internationally in many forms and contexts since 1999.
Consuming Nature
Can we criticize colonialism without criticizing capitalism? Once we understand the division of domains and shared responsibilities between imperial rule, private investors, and a global market, the factor linking 16th-century colonialism to contemporary forms of neo-colonial and extractivist policies becomes evident.
The Theft of Time
In this essay written during the first months of the pandemic lockdown, Aaron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas consider the infinite potential of rest in relation to capitalism’s extraction of value from labor.
