Mexico

The border fortifications that separate the north of Mexico from the United States can be seen not only as a physical wall between the two states, but also as a reflection of social inequality, symbolic demarcation, pipe-dreams and prejudices.

Young up-and-coming Mexican artists will be designing the bricks of the wall as part of a workshop during which they will examine the symbolic meaning of the wall in Mexican society and jointly devise a design concept for the bricks. Taking part will be the graffiti artist Dhear, the graffiti artist Saner, the artist and graphic designer Mora Diez, the artist Dulce Chacón and the multimedia artist Juan Pablo Villegas.

The workshop will be run by the Mexican artist Diego Teo. Its partner is the Border cultural centre, where the workshop will take place and the bricks will be designed. The head of the centre, Eugenio Echeverría, will be curating the exhibition.



To establish an even clearer link between the “Mexican wall” and the Berlin Wall, the bricks will be exhibited at the 8th German Film Week in Mexico City. This year’s German Film Week will focus in a variety of ways on the Berlin Wall. The week not only opens on the same day as the Wall was built, 13 August, but also features a photo exhibition entitled Grenzfall (a German play on words meaning both “borderline case” and “fall of the border”) by Norbert Enker, whose photographs document the fall of the Wall and its disappearance. Nine highly contemporary German film productions will be screened to illustrate how Germany has developed 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The designed bricks will be on show in the courtyard of the Cineteca Nacional during the film week from August 13 until August 23. The project will be documented a young photographer who will keep a record of the wall in the world project in Mexico, from the workshops to the exhibition of the bricks.