Courtesy of the Artist and ArtLabour
Tijuana Girl Crossing, 2007
Single channel 8 ½ mm / DV Cam
5:04 loop, sound
Katya Gardea-Browne documents in “Tijuana Girl Crossing” (2007) the week-long roaming of a girl from Los Angeles at the US-Mexico border. Her figure travels the screen but it is never completely defined. The artist reflects upon our tendency in seeing ourselves within architecture and in urban settings. In her work, the use of photography and the register of landscape operates as a link between abstraction and self documentation of a transient experience. She researches in between contexts exploring different landscapes using video and installations in architectural and public spaces, departing from the relationship between the ‘identity sphere’, architecture and the body.
