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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 077) [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; 4 x 11 meters
Form/Genre
site-specific works public art sculpture (visual work) installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb9730030k
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Billboards (site elements) City planning Boundaries Political art Border art Express highways Satellite imagery Commuting Night Bridges (built works) Traffic Site-specific works Public art Sculpture (visual work) Installations (visual works) Mexican-American border region InSITE2000
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