This is the story of a homecoming. Born in Los Angeles to Mexican immigrant parents, Eduardo Sarabia is a marginalized child from the East Side of the Californian city. Long before gentrification, gang violence raged in the 1990s. Art is its only way out. He began a career as an artist between the United States and Berlin before settling in 2003 in Guadalajara, in the country of his parents, as if in search of his own history. Sarabia is a storyteller. He draws inspiration from the independent economies and local folklore of northern Mexico to tell stories through a romantic or realistic pictorial universe. In his video Lo Quiero Todo, he is inspired by the legend of Jesus Malverde, a sort of Robin Hood version of narcos, idol of drug traffickers who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Proud of his Mexican heritage, Eduardo Sarabia is the star of Guadalajara and uses exhilaratingly many local know-how, such as ceramics, glassware or textiles.
