TIERRA SIN MALES is based on the horrifying highway sign near the U.S. / Mexico border, warning drivers not to hit immigrant families as they flee across the road. It is a spinning, spiraling, fracturing video piece which moves both with and against expectations or known laws of physics. A large glass globe rolls tensely back and forth on a track over a central fulcrum. Embedded within the sphere is an image which may call forth numerous references, Attic, Etruscan … but is in fact the highway warning sign. It rolls uphill, catching slightly over the edge, contorts, distorts, looks primeval or of the future.
The piece is digitally generated. It is accompanied by a deep reverberating sound track.
"TIERRA SIN MALES" hovers in disequilibrium, precarious dislocation, extending questions. It premiered at TRA, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice Biennale 2011.
