You Are Aquí: light box installed on the Puente Mexico

Cuban-born artist Arturo Cuenca was drawn to work with the visual language of billboards that crowd the US-Mexican border crossing at San Ysidro. With "You Are Aquí" Cuenca pointed to the obvious - locating border crossers exactly at the point of transition between the two countries.
Borrowing from the visual language of the surrounding billboards. Cuenca constructed a new billboard with a manipulated satellite image of the border and had it installed on the Puente Mexico, the pedestrian bridge that crosses the lines of vehicular border traffic. Acting as a location marker, the work was seen by more than 45,000 commuters daily. --inSITE2000

• 2000

• Decker, Alan (photographer)

• Cuenca, Arturo (Cuban painter, graphic artist, and photographer, born 1955)

• InSITE2000

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 079)

Puente Mexico, San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States

light boxes

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• Mexican-American border region

• Installations (visual works)
• Public art
• Sculpture (visual work)
• Site-specific works

• Billboards (site elements)
• Border art
• Boundaries
• Bridges (built works)
• City planning
• Commuting
• Express highways
• Political art
• Satellite imagery

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