"""I am for a border that does not divide..."""

Carrillo, Alejandra

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Title

"""I am for a border that does not divide..."""

Author(s)

Carrillo, Alejandra

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

Art and Design

Abstract

My research focuses on testimonies and letter grievances of detained immigrants located on the U.S./Mexican border of El Paso, TX and Cd. Juarez. In the summer of 2016, I volunteered to visit them at the El Paso Detention Center and since then have been in contact with the Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee, a group that increases visibility to the harsh conditions and treatment migrants receive at the center. I am interested in bridging the gap of their intangible but credible stories to make pieces that directly connect their experience, voice, and fears into artwork. With “Shackled Freedom”, I focus on a common thread the grievances share, which is being treated like an animal, specifically a dog. With this in mind, the piece contains ten quotes laser-etched on clear acrylic hung by chains that connect to a dog-training collar. The clear acrylic symbolizes the lack of transparency at the detention center and the location of the image was taken at the international bridge of El Paso/Cd. Juarez. Hung directly on the fence in between the two countries with the visible division in the background is representative of a border that was systematically and politically made.

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• image

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Copyright 2017 Alejandra Carrillo

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