Talk by Michelle Chong, 25 April, 2009


OFF FENCE. Art on the Californian-Mexican Border is an artistic platform with five positions, exploring the cultural overflow, overlap and tensions in the border region of Southern California and Northwest Mexico.

The artists from Los Angeles and Mexico City each deal with the theme of the border and its effects on Mexican and Mexican-American identity in uniquely different ways. Michelle Chong and Luis G. Hernandez produce prints and net.art works which investgate ethnic identity from a linguistic perspective. The video and photography work of Ed Gomez and Camilo Ontiveros artistically reflect the political and economic impact of cultural disruption and division. The video work of Katya Gardea Browne processes physical and geographic structures and reflects the formal aspects of borders as such. (more Information...)

Exhibition view (left, Trans-poster 2010, Michelle Chong, right, Caution: the Freeway Interventions, 2005, Camilo Ontiveros)


Exhibition view (left, Americanista, Ed Gomez, 2008, right Los, 2009 Luis G. Hernandez)


Caution: the Freeway Interventions, Camilo Ontiveros, 2005


Caution: the Freeway Interventions, Camilo Ontiveros, 2005


Exhibition view (Tijuana Girl Crossing, 2008, Katya Gardea Brown)


Exhibition view (Tijuana Girl Crossing, 2008, Katya Gardea Brown)


Exhibition view (Find Yourself Here, 2009, Michelle Chong)