The Line
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- Created Date
- 1997
- Description
Sculpture and Installations
Fernando Arias's project for inSITE97, The Line/La linea, was installed at the ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego. Using a piece of the US-Mexico border sheet metal fence slightly suspended above a concrete floor, Arias divided an interior space. Beneath the suspended edge of the fence the artist placed white powder - an image of cocaine about to be cut. Attempting to highlight the human issues raised by illegal drug trafficking among countries of the Americas, Arias focused particularly on the use of the human body as a vehicle for transport and smuggling. During the opening weekend of the exhibition, Arias invited viewers to look into an endoscope running into his body to illustrate the invasive ways in which drugs are transported. --inSITE97
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 01, Item 028)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
San Diego (Calif.)
ReinCarnation Project
- Creator
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE)
Arias, Fernando (Colombian sculptor and Performance artist, born 1963)
- Partner
- California Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
- Collection
- inSite Archive: Selections
- Subjects
- Drug traffic
Human body
Border art
Cocaine
Boundaries
Installations (visual works)
Sculpture (visual work)
Fences
Walls
Mexican-American border region
InSITE97 - Location
- Mexican-American border region
- Type
- image
- Format
- Sheet metal; glass (material); Endoscopes; metal; powder
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Rights
- Unknown
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- Chicago citation style
- Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE), Arias, Fernando (Colombian sculptor and Performance artist, born 1963). The Line. 1997. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb88085165. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE), Arias, Fernando (Colombian sculptor and Performance artist, born 1963), (1997) The Line. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb88085165
- MLA citation style
- Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE), Arias, Fernando (Colombian sculptor and Performance artist, born 1963). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb88085165>.