Post Apocalyptic Ñongo
Installation
Installation view along with Transformación No.2 photographic series at Southwestern College Art Gallery, group exhibition GIMME SHELTER San Diego CA 2023
Installation View (detail) at Southwestern College Art Gallery, group exhibition GIMME SHELTER San Diego CA 2023
When I envision Tijuana after the San Andreas fault transformation or any other natural disaster in the world, I remember the people who I met at the Tijuana river and their abilities to build ñongos (shelters) recycling anything from the environment and its surroundings. The community of undocumented people who settled at the border area of the canal was surviving the unnatural disaster of an exaggeratedly divided world. The post-apocalyptic Ñongo mixes organic with inorganic materials to reimagine a dystopian future in which Earth offers protection for its inhabitants (who are part of the planet).
Recycled rubber bands, cables, wire of 4 different types, optical fiber, straw, Clothes, scraps, sticks from trees of the Teniente Guerrero Park, orange bubble wrap, henequen fiber, veil fabric, dry plants and flowers, plastic, china paper, rope, ground, stones and debris from Balfour Beatty construction site.