Fences & Neighbors | Sat. April 10 - Sun. May 15

On view: Saturday, April 10 - Sunday, May 15, 2016

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 1-6pm or by appointment.

FiveMyles | 558 St Johns Place | Brooklyn, NY 11238 Map

The installation is inspired by Janet Goldner’s research trip to Arizona in 2014.

A woven barbed wire fence divides the gallery. On the far side is a projected video about real and imagined abundance and stories of migrants. Viewers can see the video through the fence without being able to access the other side. On the near side of the fence are photographs of what the migrants left behind - their families, their food, their culture.

As the fever pitch around migration mounted, Goldner wanted to see for herself. Working with the Tucson Arts Brigade and the US Department of Arts and Culture, she spent a week on and around the border. The 30 ft. high fence separating Nogales, Arizona from Nogales, Sonora, made of surplus military steel from the runways in Iraq, was particularly impressive and disturbing. They say that good fences make good neighbors. But what if our neighbors are fleeing violence and poverty?

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