Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of Contemporary Art
September 3 – October 10, 2009
Opening Party
Wednesday, September 2, 7-9 pm, featuring DJ Papichulo
Delilah Montoya
Delilah Montoya, Humane Borders Water Station, 2004. Archival digital photographic print mounted on aluminum, 18 x 45 5/8 in.
Status Report presents work by contemporary Mexican and Latino artists, highlighting the varied ways that artists have examined the themes of immigration, the U. S./Mexican border, and work. Exhibiting artists – based in Brooklyn and greater New York, the West Coast, and Mexico – include Margarita Cabrera, Sergio de la Torre and Vicky Funari, Christina Fernandez, Coco Fusco, Erika Harrsch, Pedro Lasch, Delilah Montoya, and Dulce Pinzón.
Erika Harrsch
Erika Harrsch, United States of North America, 2009, Mixed-media installation.
Pedro Lasch
Pedro Lasch, Vicencio Marquez (Mexico) crossed 7 times.
Status Report is the first exhibition in New York to consider the issue of Mexican immigration, the border, and work through the lens of contemporary, urban artists. Its organization has been inspired by the enormous growth in Mexican population in New York – particularly in Brooklyn – in the last decade. In fact, the city’s Mexican population has roughly sextupled since 1990.
Christina Fernandez
Christina Fernandez, Fashion International, c-print.
Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco, This is your last chance!, film still.
Moving Wall | Pictures Program
Wednesday, September 9, 7:00 pm
Border, immigration, and work on video and film in the inaugural Moving Wall | Pictures program.
Artists Coco Fusco, Vicky Funari, and Alex Rivera will discuss moving image portrayals of border issues, immigration, and work. The evening will focus on Coco Fusco's video installation, Dolores from 10 to 10; Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre's film, Maquilapolis, and Alex Rivera's film, Sleep Dealer. Moderated by Elizabeth Ferrer, curator of Status Report and Director of Contemporary Art.
More information and participating artist bios.
Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre
Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre, Maquilapolis: workers display the products they assemble, 2006, film still. Photo Maung.
Margarita Cabrera
Margarita Cabrera, Backpack (blue), 2006. Vinyl and thread.
Dulce Pinzon
Dulce Pinzon, MINERVA VALENCIA from Puebla works as a nanny in New York. She Sends 400 dollars a week. Catwoman, 2005 Color photograph from the series The True Story of the Superheroes.