| Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP Commissioner, NYC Parks www.nyc.gov/parks | Listing | PLEASE LIST through December 20, 2018 IMMEDIATE |
BORDERS ARE SUBJECT OF new PUBLIC ART installation IN DUMBO
DATE: On view through December 20, 2018
LOCATION: Anchorage Plaza
Washington Street between Prospect Street and York Street
BROOKLYN
DETAILS: In partnership with United Photo Industries and DUMBO BID, NYC Parks presents a new public art installation along a fence at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian entrance. “The Wall” is a series of large-scale photographic banners that display photographer Griselda San Martin's powerful project about the wall that divides the United States and Mexico.
At the juncture of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, the border wall’s rusting steel bars plunge into the sand, extending 300 feet into the Pacific Ocean, and cast a long and conflicting shadow. The images on the banners were captured in Friendship Park, a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border where families meet to share intimate moments through the metal fence that separates them.
Physical borders create symbolic boundaries that reinforce the rhetoric of “us versus them” and become enduring, permanent features of the geopolitical landscape that send a forceful message of exclusion. By calling attention to the human interactions at Friendship Park, Griselda San Martin attempts to neutralize what this wall was built to create: separation.
This exhibition is FREE and open to the public. For more information, please call (212) 360-8163.
Press Contact:
Maeri Ferguson
pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
(212) 360-1311
Images courtesy of the artist
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