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Richard Nixon: Wax Figure Of Richard Nixon Holding Audio Tapes
title Richard Nixon: Wax Figure Of Richard Nixon Holding Audio Tapesdescription California artist Jeffrey Vallance proposed to make an intervention at the Tijuana Wax Museum for inSITE2000. Collaborating with Mexico City-based wax-figure maker Victor Hugo Yanez, Vallance produced three new figures for the museum: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dante, and former US President Richard Nixon. Vallance started with a list of about twenty-eight names of historical and contemporary figures as potential additions to the display at the museum, and arrive at the selection of the three figures based on the existing exhibition structure. The Virgin of Guadalupe could be seen in full figure situated on her own, while Nixon was placed in the presidential room holding in his hands the symbolic element that came to define his public career, a simulated set of reel-to-reel Watergate tapes, and Dante was placed at the entrance to hell with his hand pointing the way. With his project for the Wax Museum, Vallance deepened his own interest and fascination with the three selected figures. In this way, having followed stories for years from different parts of the world detailing apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Vallance, during a residency period in San Diego, could add yet another apparition to the list - he spotted her up high on a stone column at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown hotel. -- inSITE2000 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 311, Folder 01, Item 385) Tijuana Wax Museum [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Wax Figures Evidence (Law) Popular Culture Politicians Boundaries Sculpture (Visual Work) Audiotapes Figurative Art Mexican-American Border Region Corruption Kitsch Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 Waxworks Insite2000 Installations (Visual Works) Border Artcontributor Calisphere