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Yto Barrada, Ceuta Border, Illegally Crossing the Border into the Spanish Enclave of Ceuta, Tangier
What can a photograph tell us about the experience of migration and border crossings?
Suchitra Mattai, Exodus
Although there are no figures in this massive tapestry, the South Asian diaspora is manifest through the almost 200 globally sourced saris.
Doris Salcedo: Third World Identity
In her Bogotá studio, artist Doris Salcedo discusses the stereotypes she faces as a citizen of a Third World country and how she embraces these first-hand experiences of discrimination to inform her art.
Zineb Sedira – ‘The Personal is Political’
Zineb Sedira was born in Paris to Algerian parents, and her works are often autobiographical, addressing issues of cultural identity and the personal consequences of migration.
Guadalupe Maravilla, Requiem For My Border Crossing
Guadalupe Maravilla was brought to the United States by a coyote (or human trafficker) as an undocumented eight-year-old, fleeing civil war in El Salvador—and his work grapples with that experience
Jaime Carrejo, Border/Land
Jaime Carrejo’s sculpture installations force viewers to see “the border” differently, and was inspired by the queer Chicana poet, writer, and theorist Gloria Anzaldúa
An interview with Alfredo Jaar
Is culture a prison? Alfredo Jaar discusses how two Italian thinkers influenced his work Infinite Cell
Raúl de Nieves, Beginning & the end neither & the otherwise betwixt & between the end is the beginning & the end
With gaffers tape, paper, and color gels, de Nieves creates a stained-glass narrative that begins with personal struggle and self-doubt, but ends with "a celebration of life."
Julie Mehretu, HOWL, eon (I, II)
Julie Mehretu rethinks American landscape painting by merging its sublime imagery with the harsh realities not depicted
Minerva Cuevas, Crossing of the Rio Bravo
Minerva Cuevas looks back on "Crossing of the Rio Bravo" (2010), a work in which she painted a bridge across a riverbed that divides Mexico and the United States.
Richard Misrach, Border Cantos
Photographer Richard Mirach recounts his work, from his early political aspirations in the 1970s to his current series about left-behind artifacts along the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Postcommodity arts collective
Interdisciplinary collective Postcommodity creates site-specific installations and interventions that critically examine our modern-day institutions and systems through the history and perspectives of Indigenous people
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