Desert X: Roadtripping for Large-Scale Immigration Art

SoCal immprofs, this one’s for you. (And, you know, road-tripping folks in Phoenix and NorCal.)

From February 9 through April 21 you can check out Desert X in Coachella Valley, California. As the LA Times explains, this is a free event where you can experience scattered large-scale artworks. Several will explore themes of migration:

Mexico City-born multimedia performance artist Pia Camil will figuratively connect Baja California and the Coachella Valley with her “Lover’s Rainbow,” two rainbow sculptures spanning 40 feet each, made from painted rebar. The pieces center on immigration, urban development and the desert terrain.

Brazil-born Cinthia Marcelle’s “Wormhole” will position television monitors in storefronts in the Coachella Valley and in Tijuana as a way of juxtaposing the two locations and addressing the distance between them.

The artist Norma Jeane will re-release “ShyBot,” the autonomous vehicle featured in Desert X 2017, Wakefield said. “But this time ‘ShyBot’ won’t be roaming the valley but along the Mexican border, bringing back images,” he said. “I think the idea of the connection between America and Mexico is obviously on everyone’s minds at the moment.”

Go, take pictures, and share!

-KitJ