Andrea Carrillo Iglesias

Safety Blue

The Artist

Andrea Carrillo Iglesias is a transdisciplinary artist and graphic designer working across moving image, performance, and installation. Rooted in long-term research projects—with a focus on the Baja California peninsula and the U.S.–Mexico borderlands—her practice explores themes related to territory, memory, labor, and the political implications of images. Using humor, desire, fiction, and archives, she develops counter-narratives that challenge Western ideological frameworks and power dynamics. Her collaborative methodology engages artists, researchers, and non-professional agents to form participatory assemblages merging fiction and chronicle. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from ArtCenter College of Design, completed a year of master’s studies in Visual Arts at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and earned a Master’s Degree in Art, Design, and the Public Domain from Harvard University. Her work has been exhibited at Museo Jumex, Espacio Odeón, Human Resources LA, and Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, among others. Since 2020, she has been part of the cooperative coopia, and in 2023, she co-founded Mutualismo, an independent project space in Tijuana dedicated to collective production and cross-border initiatives.

Andrea Carrillo Iglesias

The Project

Andrea Carrillo Iglesias’s Safety Blue will bring more than 40 years of women’s experiences in border-region factories into a live performance combining dance, video, spoken text, lighting, and sound. The project draws on her mother’s research archive from the early 1980s documenting women’s working conditions in maquiladoras—factories in Mexico that assemble or manufacture goods for export—in Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez. Interviews and workshops with women factory workers in Tijuana connect that historical record with experiences today. Developed in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Melissa Herrada and a team of creative artists, Safety Blue explores how demanding labor affects women’s bodies and lives. Movement gives physical expression to experiences that written records alone may not convey. Alongside these difficult histories, the work recognizes women’s collective resistance and strength. Artists Count will support two planned presentations of the 45-minute performance at a San Diego County venue, along with two introductory talks at local galleries or community art spaces. These talks will offer insight into the collaborative process and invite discussion about family archives, community memory, and border labor. The project connects a personal family archive with a wider history whose effects continue across the region.

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