Exhibition
Fences & Neighbors
10 Apr 2016 – 15 May 2016
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 558 Saint Johns Place
- New York
New York - 11238
- United States
Fences & Neighbors is a mixed media installation exploring the U.S.-Mexico border crisis.
About
Fences & Neighbors is inspired by Janet Goldner’s research trip to Arizona in 2014.
A woven barbed wire fence divides the gallery. On the far side is a projected video about real and imagined abundance and stories of migrants. Viewers can see the video through the fence without being able to access the other side. On the near side of the fence are photographs of what the migrants left behind - their families, their food, their culture.
As the fever pitch around migration mounted, Goldner wanted to see for herself. Working with the Tucson Arts Brigade and the US Department of Arts and Culture, she spent a week on and around the border. The 30 ft. high fence separating Nogales, Arizona from Nogales, Sonora, made of surplus military steel from the runways in Iraq, was particularly impressive and disturbing. They say that good fences make good neighbors. But what if our neighbors are fleeing violence and poverty?