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

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FiveMyles

New York
New York, United States

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Fences & Neighbors is a mixed media installation exploring the U.S.-Mexico border crisis.

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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?

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Janet Goldner

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