Tag: border

Mitch Epstein at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

‘Property Rights,’ Mitch Epstein’s latest photography series focuses on contested land in the U.S., from protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock to the conflict between immigration activists and self-organized patrols along the southern border.  Though each location is defined by its tensions, Epstein’s photos are marked by their calmness and sensitivity to the experience of everyday people navigating the impact of larger forces on their lives.  (On view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea through Oct 5th).

Mitch Epstein, Border Wall, Nogales, Arizona 2017, chromogenic print, 25.125 x 33.5 inches, 2017.

JR at Galerie Perrotin

French street artist JR is back in town this summer with a show of photography, sculpture and installation that continues his outspoken advocacy for vulnerable populations. In this aerial overview, we see the eyes of Mayra, an undocumented immigrant who arrived in California as a child.  Used as backdrop for a picnic on both sides of the US/Mexican border, the image counters division with unity.  (On view at Galerie Perrotin on the Lower East side through August 17th).

JR, Migrants, Mayra, Picnic across the border, Quadrichromie, Tecate, Mexico – USA, 4-color print on paper, mounted on cotton canvas, wooden frame, ½ offset printing plate, h 92 1/8 x l. 186 5/8 inches, 2018.

Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo at Pace Gallery

After years of traveling to the U.S./Mexico border, photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo joined forces to create sobering images and sculpture inspired by struggles of migrants determined to overcome the border’s many obstacles. This installation view of their exhibition at Pace Gallery in Chelsea features an instrument made by Galindo of items recovered from the region and Misrach’s photos of tires drug behind border patrol vehicles to make a path in which footprints can be detected. (On view through August 18th.)

Installation view of ‘Border Cantos’ by Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo at Pace Gallery, June 2017.