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Title
You Are Aquí: light box installed on the Puente Mexico
Creator
Decker, Alan (photographer)
Cuenca, Arturo (Cuban painter, graphic artist, and photographer, born 1955)
Contributor
InSITE2000
Date Created and/or Issued
2000
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Photographs
Sculpture and Installations
Cuban-born artist Arturo Cuenca was drawn to work with the visual language of billboards that crowd the US-Mexican border crossing at San Ysidro. With "You Are Aquí" Cuenca pointed to the obvious - locating border crossers exactly at the point of transition between the two countries. Borrowing from the visual language of the surrounding billboards. Cuenca constructed a new billboard with a manipulated satellite image of the border and had it installed on the Puente Mexico, the pedestrian bridge that crosses the lines of vehicular border traffic. Acting as a location marker, the work was seen by more than 45,000 commuters daily. --inSITE2000
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 309, Folder 03, Item 079)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Puente Mexico, San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States
Type
image
Format
Light boxes
Form/Genre
site-specific works
public art
installations (visual works)
sculpture (visual work)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5805078p
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Commuting
Political art
Boundaries
Satellite imagery
Express highways
Billboards (site elements)
Border art
City planning
Bridges (built works)
Site-specific works
Public art
Installations (visual works)
Sculpture (visual work)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE2000
Place
Mexican-American border region

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