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Title
Popotla - The Wall: crushed beer cans used to color mural
Creator
RevolucionArte (American and Mexican artists' collective)
Fluker, Jimmy (American photographer)
Contributor
InSITE97
Date Created and/or Issued
1997
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Sculpture and Installations
For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolucionArte (RevArte) worked with local children and residents of the fishing village Popotla to create murals constructed of found materials to soften and embellish the concrete walls surrounding their community. Popotla had recently been subjected to the development of numerous modern buildings and projects, including the kilometer-long concrete wall constructed for 20th Century Fox's production set for the film Titanic. It was on this wall that the murals were created, giving the residents a sense of ownership over their village and its landscape. "Popotla - The Wall/Popotla - El muro," was created over the course of four months, but even after the exhibition was over the community continued to add to the murals. --inSITE97
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 297)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Popotla, Rosarito, Baja California Norte, Mexico
Type
image
Format
Wood (plant material); paint; Beer cans
Form/Genre
walls
sculpture (visual work)
murals (any medium)
public art
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4337501v
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Assemblage (sculpture technique)
Boundaries
Children (people by age group)
Color
Humor
Recycling
Walls
Sculpture (visual work)
Murals (any medium)
Public art
Mexican-American border region
InSITE97
Place
Mexican-American border region

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