EXPO ‘La Frontera’ – Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco (USA)– 14 Aout-15 Sept. 2013
La Frontera opens August 14 at Velvet da Vinci Gallery
Exposición que explora el espacio de la frontera y lo que representa, entablando un diálogo entre diferentes artistas que a través de la joyería expresan cómo entienden esta realidad geográfica de implicaciones económicas, políticas, sociales, culturales e ideológicas. A través de 150 piezas, diseñadas por 90 creadores provenientes de distintos continente se reflexiona sobre nuestra frontera con Estados Unidos y las implicaciones que ésta tiene para cada uno de nosotros.
Martacarmela Sotelo, Visiones de la frontera
Artists: Rameen Ahmed — Mayte Amezcua — Eliana Arenas — William Austin III — Iacov Azubel — Maria Fernanda Barba — Brooke Battles — Ela Bauer — Victor Beckmann — Kristin Beeler — Aline Berdichevsky — Jesse Bert — Elvira Bessudo – Raquel Bessudo — Linnèa Blakèus & David Alexander Calder — Arturo Borrego — Sandra Bostock — Alejandra Bremer — Gabriela Campo — Jorge Castañon — Cristina Celis — Celeste Christie — Thea Clark — Kate Connell & Oscar Melara — Bruno Cuervo Aceves — Jessica Davies — Alberto Dávila — Clementine Edwards — Beate Eismann — Danielle Embry — Nicolas Estrada — Brenda Ligia — Sol Flores — Andrés Fonseca — Christine Forni — Monica Guerra — Elisa Gulminelli — Pierce Healy — Heidemarie Herb — Thomas Hill — Holland Houdek — Marta Hryc — Kevin Hughes — Mary Frisbee Johnson — Tammy Young — Eun Kim — Barbara Knuth — Alejandra Koreck — Claire Lavendhomme — Lorena Lazard — Ria Lins — Criselda Lopez — María Eugenia López — Jorge Manilla — Alix Manon — Carmen Marcos Martínez — Gigi Mariani — Wendy Maruyama — Judy McCaig — Edward Lane McCartney — Emma Messer — Molly Mitchell — Katharina Moch — Nancy Moyer with Mark Clark — Dawn E. Nakanishi — Alja Neuner — Brigid O´Hanrahan — Mabel Pena — Chiara Pignotti — Ramón Puig Cuyàs — Kerianne Quick — Alexander Romero Reyes — Poleta Rodete — Jacqueline Roffe — Zinna Rudman — Elizabeth Rustrian — Carmen Lucia Sandoval — Chiara Scarpitti — Agnes Seebass — Marina Sheetikoff — Alejandra Solar — Maria Solórzano — Martacarmela Sotelo — Olga Starostina — Rachelle Thiewes — Demitra Thomloudis — Sabina Tiemroth — Julia Turner — Martha Vargas — Elizabeth Wilson – Jette Zirpins
Julia Turner Three Days Walking (Mourning Brooch)
« Borders separate but also unite » (Octavio Paz)
Historically the relationship between Mexico and the United States has been complicated, deep, and conflicted. Due to geography, this relationship is unavoidable and comprised of many underlying currents: economic, political, social, cultural, ecologic and ideological.
La Frontera (The Borderlands) is the physical space where the relationship between Mexico and the U.S is most evident. In recent years, drug trafficking and violence have made it the focus of almost daily news. However, the extremely porous nature of the border allows not only the illegal passage of arms and drugs, but also ideas, money, projects, families, and culture.
The border is an environment of opportunity both legal and not. Nearly 2000 miles long, the U.S. – Mexico border is the most frequently crossed international border in the world. Companies use differences in labor and environmental regulations to their advantage and create discontent on both sides of the border. Since the 1980s economic and political refugees from Central America have swelled populations at the border and migrations across it. The construction of the 700- mile U.S. – Mexico Border Fence of the past several years is the most tangible symbol of failed politics.
The exhibition LA FRONTERA seeks to explore this physical space and what it represents. This is why we want artists either born in either of these countries or who live in either of these countries to express how they understand the border.
Jorge Castañón – « Hacia dónde va tu Sangre ? » 
Iacov Azubel bracelet, « ¿Son necesarias las fronteras? »
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