Artist: Marcos Ramírez Erre
Curator: Alma Ruiz
Booth 110

A transborder artist working between San Diego and Tijuana, Marcos Ramírez ERRE (b. 1961, Tijuana, Baja California) creates compelling works that critically explore border regions, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own connections to these spaces.

Beginning with InSite 97 in 1997 and ending with Site Santa Fe in 2014, the exhibition features works like Toy-an Horse (1997), a two-headed wooden horse straddling the border between the United States and Mexico, symbolizing the complex relationship that unites them, and Stripes and Fence Forever (Homage to Jasper Johns) (1997), a rusted metal piece resembling the border fence while referencing Jasper Johns, an American artist known for his depictions of the American flag, included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial in New York City.

In a prescient manner, ERRE’s contribution to the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007), Russian Blue from The Road to Perdition series, presents a billboard-style list of countries Russia has invaded since 1921, emphasizing themes of expansionism and geopolitical conflict. This work, along with others, underscores ERRE’s bi-national identity, exemplifying what it means to live and work on both sides of the border, as described by writer and historian Edgardo Bermejo Mora.