Curtain Call

Mexico City artist Felipe Ehrenberg created a two-part installation for inSITE94, "Curtain Call," sited in the concourse of the Santa Fe Depot in San Diego and in the garden of the Centro Cultural Tijuana. The artist installed two nearly identical structures. In Tijuana, the work consisted of a metal framework of poles between which cables were stretched. Across these cables, faceless cotton cloth dolls were randomly hung like human musical notes. In San Diego, the installation took a similar form, except that the framework was built of wood and the lines were made of hemp. --inSITE94

• 1994

• Ehrenberg, Felipe (Mexican installation artist, publisher, and writer, born 1943)

• InSITE94

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 104)

Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.)

wood (plant material); hemp; cloth

• InSITE94

• Mexican-American border region

• Installations (visual works)
• Sculpture (visual work)

• Border art
• Clothing
• Dolls
• Draperies
• Musical notation

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715385

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Unknown (US)

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2020-10-27