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Sculpture and Installations For inSITE97, Marcos Ramirez ERRE collaborated with several artists to construct "Toy an Horse," a monumental wood and metal replica of the iconic Trojan Horse. Installed directly on top of the monument marking the border about 50 meters from the border cross-checkpoint at San Ysidro, the horse was visible to the 50,000 people crossing the border by car every day. Ramirez stated that the purpose of the project was to use the narrative symbolism of the Trojan horse to stimulate discussion about the border, invasion, cultural exchange, and dependency. --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 292) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Paper (fiber product)
Form/Genre
Drawings (visual works) public art sculpture (visual work) installations (visual works)
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Blueprints Horses Emigration and immigration Janus-faced Political art Trojan horse (Greek mythology) Trojan War Economics Architecture (object genre) Border art Boundaries Humor Poor Satire (artistic device) Border crossing Drawings (visual works) Public art Sculpture (visual work) Installations (visual works) Mexican-American border region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) InSITE97
Place
Mexican-American border region Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)
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