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del blog de CIIS  Omar Pimienta’s "Translation"  is on view on the 2nd floor of the CIIS Minna location. The exhibition uses Pimienta’s personal geography, commuting back and forth across the border from Tijuana, Mexico, where he lives, to San Diego, where he works, to explore the transnational, transcultural and trans-lingual experience. Diaristic in both execution and presentation, the collaged photo wall of this experience is particularly moving; Pimienta’s journey is made visible most notably by referencing the culture of cars and movement, as Pimienta is constantly shifting between languages and cultures in his daily trips. Various clues and insights are given by the landscape he navigates, the pervasiveness of US culture evident in the McDonald’s logos and Statue of Liberty figures that populate many of these images. The exertion of these trips, echoed in the quantity of 4 x 6 photographs that cover an entire wall, is striking. Interestingly, the Statue of Liberty
Todos Invitados !   Si andan por San Francisco no olviden pasar a ver la expo.  espero les guste! Across two languages and two nations. A perpetual shift between images that relate to words, words that relate to objects, objects that relate to time. A constant moving forward, stepping back, looking to understand: a car is a car is a carro is a scar once you have a 9mm pointing at Marcella's face. A 2004 salvage Jetta, leather seats and power windows. A car that crosses from one nation to another, from a dormitory/party city to America's finest/labor city. About the Artist Omar Pimienta  (Tijuana-San Diego) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses the lens of personal geography while working with media such as photography, video, installations, and text, among others, to explore social landscapes, collective and individual histories, and the spaces within/between the imagination and the image. Learn more about  Omar Pimienta's Artist Reception  at CIIS on Mar