Todas Las Fronteras son Temporales, US Border Do Not Cross

Josh MacPhee, American, born 1973

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2012

Silkscreen, letterpress

14/40

Sheet: 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Contemporary Art Fund

2013.46.18

Portfolio / Series Title

Migration Now

Publisher

Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative | CultureStrike, New York

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

21st century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Label

Josh MacPhee’s broken, lonely barricade reflects how states and policing systems often claim to control more than they actually can and show the fallibility of human-made tools to restrict movement. The gaps in the fence, MacPhee suggests, are always wider than they first appear.

From the 2019 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 95, Creating Knowledge and Control, curated by Annabelle Bardenheier '19, Conroy Programming Intern

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 95, Creating Knowledge And Control, Annabelle Bardenheier, Class of 2019, Conroy Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 10-September 22, 2019.

Publication History

Annabelle Bardenheier, Class of 2019, Conroy Intern, A Space for Dialogue 95, Creating Knowledge And Control, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019.

Provenance

Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, New York; sold to present collection, 2013.

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