di Rosa and Minnesota Street Project Foundation are pleased to present Invaders: Vallejo, Food and the Making of California, an exhibition of work by Julio César Morales, which uses food to address histories of conquest, migration, and cultural exchange. The exhibition pairs Interrupted Passage, an ongoing food-based project by Julio César Morales and Max La Rivière-Hedrick, with significant works from the di Rosa Permanent Collection.

The exhibition presents the most expansive view to-date of this two-decade project, bringing together video, sculpture, photography, ephemera, and live food activations, alongside a new series of photographs and a new video and sound installation.

Through food and the rituals surrounding it, Invaders asks how histories of invasion and migration settle into the body—how they linger—in taste and memory, in the hands that prepare a meal, in the stories passed from one generation to another, and in the strangers who become guests at our table.