Although there are no figures in this massive tapestry, the South Asian diaspora is manifest through the almost 200 globally sourced saris.
mapping and migration
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.
Doris Salcedo: Third World Identity
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.
Zineb Sedira – ‘The Personal is Political’
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
Guadalupe Maravilla, Requiem For My Border Crossing
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
Jaime Carrejo, Border/Land
Is culture a prison? Alfredo Jaar discusses how two Italian thinkers influenced his work Infinite Cell
An interview with Alfredo Jaar
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."
Raúl de Nieves, Beginning & the end ...
Julie Mehretu rethinks American landscape painting by merging its sublime imagery with the harsh realities not depicted
Julie Mehretu, HOWL, eon (I, II)
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.
Minerva Cuevas, Crossing of the Rio Bravo
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.
Richard Misrach, Border Cantos
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
Postcommodity arts collective
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer embarks on his most ambitious project to date: an enormous intercom system at the border between El Paso and Juárez that allows participants from both sides to speak and listen to each other via radio-enabled searchlights
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Border Tuner
Binational artist Tanya Aguiñiga pushes the power of art to transform the United States-Mexico border from a site of trauma to a creative space for personal healing and collective expression.
Tanya Aguiñiga, Metabolizing the Border
The Wyeths have a long history of painting the American story.
Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown
In this work, a contemporary Ethiopian artist explores the utopian potential of chaos in a globalizing world.
Julie Mehretu, Stadia II
Although Salcedo’s exhibit at Tate Modern ended in 2008, the scar remains—a reminder that the past can’t be erased.
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