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Bushwick Art Space and Five Immigrant Artists Respond to Trump’s Border “Crisis”

A group show at the Border Project Space in Bushwick takes a different approach Trump's nationalist ideas about separation

Bushwick Art Space and Five Immigrant Artists Respond to Trump’s Border “Crisis”

Bushwick Art Space and Five Immigrant Artists Respond to Trump’s Border “Crisis”

A group show at the Border Project Space in Bushwick takes a different approach Trump's nationalist ideas about separation

Bushwick Art Space and Five Immigrant Artists Respond to Trump’s Border “Crisis”

VERGE, a group show at The Border Project Space on Bogart street, closes this week on April 7. On view this past month, five immigrant artists comment on borders, territories, immigration, people, and edges using various mediums. The wall Trump is currently imposing on our country calls for exclusivity and radical nationalism. However, “Verge inverts the concept of a wall as a barrier, transforming it into a platform for the convergence of human experience which was created with 1300 clay bricks,” as stated in the press release.

In August of 2014, two years and three months before Donald Trump became president, he tweeted “SECURE THE BORDER! BUILD A WALL!” Flash forward to 2019, where the president partially…

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