The Jewel / In God We Trust: junk car covered in gold leaf in luxury car dealer showroom
La joya/ En Dios confiamos
- Collection
- Description
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João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05
- Creation Date
- 2005
- Artist
- Sponsor
- Curator
- Location Of Originals
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This image was extracted from a CD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189)
- Venue
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La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.)
- Physical Description
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automobiles; gold leaf
- Series
- Geographic
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- Topics
Format
View formats within this collection
- Language
- No linguistic content; Not applicable
- Identifier
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Shared Shelf: 18432030
- Related Resource
Online finding aid
- Classification
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Sculpture and Installations
- Digital Origin
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born digital
- Cite This Work
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[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
- Copyright
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Unknown (US)
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- Digital Object Made Available By
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Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
- Last Modified
2024-10-10