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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Architecture and City Planning Sculpture and Installations With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --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 04, Item 285) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Centro Cultural Tijuana
Type
image
Format
Mixed media; found objects
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work) replicas installations (visual works) public art
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb23920901
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Shacks Dwellings Poor Squatters settlements Border art Housing (concept) Temporary housing Homelessness Political art Poverty Humor Architecture (object genre) Satire Real property Sculpture (visual work) Replicas Installations (visual works) Public art Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Mexican-American border region InSITE94
Place
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Mexican-American border region
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