Andrea Bowers works at the locus of art and politics, implementing social activism through art discourse. Bowers’s drawings and videos humanize and quantify abstract concepts and ideologies by documenting the lives of those dealing with the everyday reality of illegal immigration and land ownership. Where contemporary media and journalism often explore politics in a removed and neutral manner, Bowers reminds us of the impact it has on an individual’s subjectivity. Her drawings, which impart a highly invested and admittedly partisan point of view, give a face to those who are otherwise overshadowed by dominant ideologies.