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About The Project

“The Wall” is a project started by Mariana Fernandez during her graduation year in the Rietveld Academy, where she works with a real size print of one of the prototypes for the border wall between Mexico and the United States, looking to confront different environments and cultures with the physical dimension of the object as a way to question the human implications of a plan of this magnitude.

At the end of October 2017, eight prototypes for the border wall between Mexico and the USA were unveiled on the Outsides of San Diego, California,  just across the border with Tijuana, where they stand awaiting to be chosen as the one to follow to complete the 3145 km of continues border wall, one of the longest in the world.  

 

If this is realised it would become one of the biggest construction projects of the modern era. 

 

Working with a real size print of one of the prototypes I occupy public space through a performance, confronting people with the physical dimension of the wall as a way to begin to understand and question the human implications of a plan of this magnitude. 

 

And by taking the prototype out of its context and confronting it with a new one, people will be faced with the dimension of the wall in their reality — their own country, city, neighborhood. Consequently challenging our fear of the other, the roles we play in public space and the empower-ment that comes from its occupation. 

For more information about the wall prototypes:

Article Washington Post

Article The Guardian

Article New York Times

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