Congelado(s)

“Congelado(s)” is a photographic series produced during a Canadian winter. González as a norteña* treats música norteña and corridos as record and narrative evidence of the migrant experience, providing an in-depth history of Mexican border-migrant culture. With this information and by connecting with Mexican migrants in Canada through social media, González contextualizes it in Canada—the other neighbor of el otro lado—using the medium of photography.

She uses the songs “Vivan Los Mojados,” “El Mojado Acaudalado” and “Tres Veces Mojado,” as inspirational material and takes pride—as the songs and música norteña—of the term mojado as an identity marker.