HIGH IMPACT ART AT BORDER

DeLIMITations - MARCOS RAMIREZ (ERRE) & DAVID TAYLOR

Two artists, one Mexican and one American, set out to reframe the history of the U.S.-Mexico border with a 2,400-mile-long site-specific installation, DeLIMITations. At a riveting talk hosted at The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD 2019, Marcos Ramírez ‘ERRE’ and David Taylor discuss their collaboration to trace the boundary as it existed in 1821, when Mexico encompassed all of present day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as portions of four other states.

The artists strategically installed 47 steel obelisks at sites along the 3,721-miles that would demarcate that binational boundary. The borderline is seen by many Mexicans as “a scar, a wound that won’t heal,” as Mexico lost 500,000 square miles of territory after the Mexican-American War.

The U.S.-Mexico border has been the subject of increased attention and heated debate since Donald Trump declared is mission to build a permanent wall along a 2,000-mile boundary line.

DeLIMITations is also on exhibition at Rick Wester Fine Art.

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