Popotla - The Wall: mural of figures on a boat

For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolucionArte (RevArte) worked with local children and residents of the fishing village Popotla to create murals constructed of found materials to soften and embellish the concrete walls surrounding their community. Popotla had recently been subjected to the development of numerous modern buildings and projects, including the kilometer-long concrete wall constructed for 20th Century Fox's production set for the film Titanic. It was on this wall that the murals were created, giving the residents a sense of ownership over their village and its landscape. "Popotla - The Wall/Popotla - El muro," was created over the course of four months, but even after the exhibition was over the community continued to add to the murals. --inSITE97

• 1997

• Fluker, Jimmy (American photographer)

• RevolucionArte (American and Mexican artists' collective)

• InSITE97

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 298)

Popotla, Rosarito, Baja California Norte, Mexico

wood (plant material); paint

• InSITE97

• Mexican-American border region

• Murals (any medium)
• Public art
• Sculpture (visual work)
• Walls

• Boats
• Boundaries
• Children (people by age group)
• Color
• Humor

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715579

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Sculpture and Installations

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

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2020-10-26