She’s Here presents the two ways I, as an American-mixed Salvadoran, search for my Cigua genealogy (Karina Alvarado, 2017) on Carleton’s campus through the Salvadoran folk character La Siguanaba. It probes human subjectivity by examining different, sometimes competing, belief systems.
The investigator wall builds a convincing narrative through the accumulation of “truth objects.” The ritual circle sanctifies a space as an honorary altar to be used as another systematic way of communicating and gathering information.
