Escape from Fantasylandia: An Illegal Alien's Survival Guide

Enrique Chagoya, artist

born 1953

Escape from Fantasylandia: An Illegal Alien's Survival Guide, 2011

Where object was made: North and Central America

Material/technique: color lithograph; gold metallic powder

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 241.3 x 2032 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 1/2 x 80 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Lucy Shaw Schultz

Accession number: 2013.0161

Not on display

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Enrique Chagoya explores the fears of living as a person of color in America. In Here Comes the Bogey Man, Chagoya reworks one of 18th-century artist Francisco Goya’s Caprichos, a series of prints condemning the follies of Spanish society, to depict a mother and her children cowering in fear from a hooded white man. In Escape from Fantasylandia, the artist ironically uses a survival guide format to inform viewers about the challenges faced by undocumented immigrants. The different panels, such as the one featuring a man making a deal with the devil, expose the trials and perils faced by those seeking access to the American Dream.
—Erin Dellasega