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Betsabeé Romero
Border Memory (Recuerdo de la frontera)2002

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Sculpture made from a carved rubber tire standing upright, its tread unrolled into a long S-shaped strip across a wooden floor, the entire surface covered in dense relief figures
Artist or Maker
Betsabeé Romero
Mexico, born 1963
Title
Border Memory (Recuerdo de la frontera)
Place Made
Mexico
Date Made
2002
Medium
Bas relief on rubber, nine Oaxacan black-clay tiles
Dimensions
a) Tire width: 8 3/4 in. (22.23 cm); Tire diameter: 32 in. (81.28 cm); b-f) Rectangular tile: 5 5/8 x 10 1/4 x 1/2 in. (14.29 x 26.04 x 1.27 cm) each; g-j) Curved tile: 10 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 1/2 in. (26.35 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm) each
Credit Line
Modern and Contemporary Art Council Fund
Accession Number
M.2003.51a-j
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Copyright
© Betsabeé Romero

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