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Title
Double Take
Creator
Táboas, Sofia (Mexican installation artist, born 1968)
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Sculpture and Installations
Mexico City artist Sofia Taboas' project for inSITE94, titled "Double Take/Doble turno," was located in one of the hallways of the Casa de la Cultura in Tijuana. Taboas created a poetic installation that played with the light entering the hallway from windows at either end by breaking up the space with a minimal gesture in the form of delicate Draperies of blue glass beads strung on barely visible strings. The effect was that of space being framed by cascading lined dots of blue that seemed to vanish when looking from one end of the hallway to the other, and yet bring attention to the space and the quality of the light entering it. -- inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 373)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana
Type
image
Format
Plastic; beads (pierced objects); string (fiber product); metal; corridors
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb16071053
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Light (energy)
Space (composition concept)
Draperies
Blue (color)
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region

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