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Claire Fontaine
Foreigners Everywhere is a series of neon signs in several different languages. Named for Stranieri Ovunque, an anarchist collective from Turin, the work embodies and projects the ambivalence of their name into various sites and contexts. Lacking context, the neon suggests a factual statement, xenophobic threat, and evokes the estrangement of feeling foreign in a global society, a circumstance legible by the targeted populations.
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Sergio De La Torre
This is not in Spanish looks at the ways in which the Chinese population in Mexico navigates the daily marginalization they encounter there. The neon translates as “this is not in Spanish,” making reference to both the famous Rene Magritte painting “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” as well as signs posted in the windows of Chinese establishments in Mexico.
Sergio De La Torre
Sergio De La Torre has worked with and documented the manifold ways in which citizens reinvent themselves in the city they inhabit, as well as the site-specific strategies they deploy to move “in and out modernity.” De La Torre often collaborates with his subjects, resulting in both intimate and critical reflections on topics like housing, immigration, and labor...
Claire Fontaine
Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective, founded in 2004...
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2000-2009
Claire Fontaine
2006Foreigners Everywhere is a series of neon signs in several different languages...
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2010-2019
Sergio De La Torre
2011This is not in Spanish looks at the ways in which the Chinese population in Mexico navigates the daily marginalization they encounter there...