The work is significant in part for its scale -- promoted as the largest binational land art installation ever exhibited on the U.S./Mexican border. Across 2 miles, the installation re-inhabited space, if only temporarily, calling attention to a history of shared terrain and offering a multilayered critique of contemporary border surveillance and politics.
Postcommodity calls attention to the U.S. / Mexico borderlands as a territory rife with surveillance systems along a border that divides communities and disrupts long-established relationships between peoples and lands. The collective seeks to find ways to respond to this contentious space by creating binational connections between American Indian, Mexican, and Latin American immigrant communities.
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