Undocumented Intervention

2006 - Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)

30H x 40W In.

Julio Cesar Morales

location: San Francisco, California
year born: 1966
gender: male
nationality: Mexican
home town: Tijuana, Mexico

Julio Cesar Morales’s watercolor drawings, Undocumented Intervention , show a variety of surprising hiding places assumed by people trying to cross into the United States without documentation. Morales drew inspiration from both his childhood near the United States-Mexico border as well as from photographic documentation on U. S. government websites.


Born in Tijuana, Mexico, San Francisco-based Julio Cesar Morales explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies, and identity strategies.


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