Launch of Nuevo South Magazine

Cornelio Campos and Rodrigo Dorfman, two consolidated visual Latino artists living in North Carolina, come together for their first collaborative exhibit. The exhibit will also feature a forum about art and mobility, guided tours, and a film screening as part of the 2025 North Carolina Latin American Film Festival.

Campos and Dorfman will be exhibiting new paintings created at the intersection of emerging AI technologies and the ongoing challenges of bearing witness to the (im)migrant Latino experience in the Nuevo South. The Disobedient Ones/Los Desobedientes is an attempt to break the rules, challenge assumptions, and search for new definitions of our humanity in a world whose axis and paradigms appear to be disintegrating before our eyes.

On view Weekdays 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Cornelio Campos is a self-trained painter and muralist from Mexico who has resided in Durham, North Carolina, since 1990. His paintings and murals reflect on his indigenous Purépecha roots and his immigrant experience in the United States. Campos has exhibited throughout North Carolina, Colombia, Italy, and Mexico, and his work is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Museum. He is the first Latino to receive a North Carolina Heritage Award.

Rodrigo Dorfman is a filmmaker and a self-taught painter known for his documentary films about the Great Latino Migration to the American South. In 2023, his documentary Bulls and Saints was shown on POV/PBS, garnering over 2 million viewers. In 2024, Dorfman opened his first solo docupainting exhibition, “Time Travelers of Durham,” at Duke University. He has lived in Durham since the late 1980’s.

This project is part of the 2025 NCLAFF and curated by Miguel Rojas Sotelo, Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Opening: September 20, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Film Screening: October 4, 6:00 PM
Forum: October 11 and 12 (TBA)
Guided Tour: November 7th (TBA)
Closing Party: December 12. 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM