Hector Canonge C  

Title: MurosDistópicos/DystopicWalls, 2007

Medium: MDF and birch plywood zig-zag wall

Location: Commission by the Queens Museum of Art for the exhibition Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere. (2007)

A site-specific plus museum installation about the division between the United States and Mexico:

In a mapping context, it makes references to the 1,951 miles along the border, and physically it offers a variation of the wall structures erected in many frontier cities and regions along the border. Accompanied by a series of public workshops, the project also treats the transnational exodus of people across countries and continents while evoking the complex relationship between the industrial North and the underdeveloped South. MurosDistópicos/DystopicWalls gives the public the change to reflect on the issue of separation, legalization, and adaptation once they start to make a living here in the United States, and what happens when they look back to their places of origin.

Hector Canonge