Event
Border Cantos: Richard Misrach and Guillermo GalindoPost an Event »
San Jose Museum of Art
February 25 - July 31, 2016Info
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http://www.sjmusart.org/
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(408) 271-6840
Reception
July 21, 2016 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Richard Misrach, Wall, Jacumba, California, 2009. Pigment print; 80 x 106 inches; AP 1 of 1; © Richard Misrach.
The San Jose Museum of Art premieres this cross-disciplinary exploration of the U.S.-Mexico border developed collaboratively by photographer Richard Misrach and composer Guillermo Galindo. The exhibition features monumental landscapes by Misrach and hand-crafted musical instruments created by Galindo from found objects recovered at the border—a shoe, a water bottle, a backpack. Border Cantos offers audiences new avenues for approaching heated political issues around immigration, border security, and immigration reform: it transcends specificity and gives a poignant, humanitarian perspective on the plight of all immigrants. By bringing the border down to human scale, and by putting politics in the context of individual human lives, Border Cantos offers a poetic response to the polarizing discussions around immigration reform that have dominated local and national politics recently—and that have recurred again and again throughout the history of this country.