Carmen Argote’s practice is one of specific places. USing site-specific sculpture, installation, drawings, video and performance, Argote  works through the act of inhabiting a space. Her practice is in conversation with the site she is working from, often pointing to the body, to class, and to economic structures in relationship to architecture and to personal history. Using physical sites, such as apartment layouts or amusement parks, the artist engages with the construction of memory.  Through foraging, salvaging, and spatial research, new projects and narratives emerge, often explored through her own body. her choice of materials—cochineal, citrus fruit, avocados, strawberry syrup, and coffee—directly reference histories of labor, violence, oppression, and colonialism through the visual language of abstraction.