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Title
The Middle of the Road
Creator
Gruner, Sylvia (Mexican Performance artist, video artist, and filmmaker, 1959 CE-)
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
After her initial residency in the region, Mexico City artist Silvia Gruner was drawn to working directly on the border fence. She chose a stretch of the fence running along the residential neighborhood of Colonia Libertad in Tijuana. Entitled "The Middle of the Road/La mitad del camino," the installation consisted of more than 100 replicas of the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl in a birthing position on metal stools, mounted directly onto the border fence. The goddess suggests fertility, a point of passage - an entering through the ritual of birth where life is being recycled or regenerated.
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 05, Item 135)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Colonia Libertad, Baja California Norte, Mexico
Type
image
Format
Steel (alloy); ceramic ware (visual works)
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
fences
installations (visual works)
public art
walls
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb6828983x
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Tlazolteotl (Aztec deity)
Feminism
STools
Political art
Boundaries
Goddesses
Fertility
Border art
Childbirth
Sculpture (visual work)
Fences
Installations (visual works)
Public art
Walls
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region

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