Tent-Camera Image on Ground: Rio Grande Looking Toward Mexico Near Boquillas Canyon, Texas
Tent-Camera Image on Ground: Rio Grande Looking Toward Mexico Near Boquillas Canyon, Texas
Artist
Abelardo Morell
(born 1948)
Date2011
MediumArchival pigment print
Dimensionssheet: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
matted: 38 1/2 × 48 in. (97.8 × 121.9 cm)
Framed: 39 1/4 × 48 3/4 in.
matted: 38 1/2 × 48 in. (97.8 × 121.9 cm)
Framed: 39 1/4 × 48 3/4 in.
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.77
Signedverso, l.r.: Abelardo Morell
Accession number
2020.77
On View
Not on viewLabel TextThe Rio Grande, seen in this image, serves as the border between the US and Mexico. But rivers can move, and with them the boundaries they mark. The Rio Grande's fluid state demonstrates how borders are arbitrary and constantly shifting. Abelardo Morell reinforces this with his artistic process. Although he stood on US soil to produce this work, the light used in his photographic process crossed this invisible boundary to create an image of Mexico.
El Río Grande, visto en esta imagen, sirve como frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. Pero los ríos pueden cambiar de curso, y con ellos, las fronteras que delimitan. El estado fluido del Río Grande demuestra cómo las fronteras son arbitrarias y cambian constantemente. Abelardo Morell refuerza esto con su proceso artístico. Aunque se situó en suelo estadounidense para producir su obra, la luz utilizada en su proceso fotográfico cruzó esta frontera invisible para crear una imagen de México.
Markingsverso, l.r.: ABELARDO MORELL / Tent-Camera Image on Ground: Rio Grande Looking / Toward Mexico New Boquillas Canyon, Texas, 2011 / Edition 1/8 [label]
verso, u.l.: [Optium Museum Acrylic label]
verso, l.c., on stretcher: LAU 126855 38-1/4x47-3/4 [label]
