Mexican American Art Since 1848 (MAAS1848)

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  Century 21: Bedroom

  title Century 21: Bedroom 

  description Architecture and City Planning  Centro Cultural Tijuana  Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design  Sculpture and Installations  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 287)  With "Century 21" Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE created a piece for inSITE94 that captured significant public attention. Located prominently on the plaza of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Ramirez replicated a common Tijuana shanty house and thereby placed the issue of socio-economic disparity where it would be difficult to avoid. The artist drew a sharp contrast to that of the modern façade of the CECUT and this apparent tension was further underscored when one ventured inside the building to find the trappings of common Mexican life. The installation included documentary photographs of five similar shanty homes. The artist stated that with this work he wanted to point to one of the sore spots of Mexican society and also posit that while some people may live in poverty they live equally with dignity and pride as members of the same society. --inSITE94  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Ramírez Erre, Marcos  Marchick, Sarah 

  subject Dwellings  Satire  Shacks  Beds (Furniture)  Real Property  Bedrooms  Temporary Housing  Housing (Concept)  Political Art  Public Art  Insite94  Squatters Settlements  Replicas  Homelessness  Humor  Mexican-American Border Region  Poverty  Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)  Sculpture (Visual Work)  Architecture (Object Genre)  Installations (Visual Works)  Border Art 

  contributor Calisphere