Visual Arts
In site-specific installations at the border, and museum exhibitions throughout the country, visual artists are presenting powerful critiques of border militarization and commodification and offering ways to imagine different kinds of human community.
Ana Teresa Fernández, Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border). Performance Documentation at Tijuana/San Diego Border, 2011.
Works by Ana Teresa Fernández, JR, Tanya Aguiñiga, Virginia San Fratello & Ronald Rael, Jason De León, ERRE, and others are highlighted below.
They surprise and delight us.
They jolt us into a new consciousness of what is possible.
- Tanya Aguiñiga, performs “Metabolizing the Border” in an extended segment from Art in the Twenty-First Century
- Art At the Crossroads: Artists Addressing the U.S./Mexico Border
- The Artist JR Lifts A Mexican Child Over the Border Wall
- Gigantic Picnic At The Border Fence
- Artists Briefly Bridge the US-Mexico Border With a Heartwarming Seesaw Linking Kids in Both Countries
- Meet the 5 Artists Redefining the US-Mexico Border
- U-M Anthropologist Uses 3,000 Toe Tags to Highlight Humanitarian Crisis at US-Mexico Border
- To Better Understand the U.S.-Mexico Border, One Artist is Tying Knots
- ERRE: Them and Us/Ellos y Nosotros