2501 migrantes
By: [instalación de Alejandro Santiago ; edición Alejandro Rodríguez Rodríguez ; fotografía Roberto Ortiz Giacomán, Héctor Peña Olguín ; traducción al inglés Susan Bryan] = 2501 migrants / [Alejandro Santiago ; edition Alejandro Rodríguez Rodríguez ; photography Roberto Ortiz Giacomán, Héctor Peña Olguín ; english translation Susan Bryan]
Contributors: Rodríguez Rodríguez, Alejandro; Ortiz Giacomán, Roberto; Peña Olguín, Héctor; Bryan, Susan; Universal Forum of Cultures (2007 : Monterrey, Mexico)
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura, UNESCO; Fórum Universal de las Culturas Monterrey 2007; Fundación Monterrey
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Monterrey, N.L
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Exhibitions; Emigration and immigration in art; Installations (Art); Migrant labor; Mexican Art
Other titles: Dos mil quinientos uno migrantes; Twenty five hundred and one migrants; 2501 migrants
Description: An installation comprising 2501 clay figures of migrant workers that represent the absence created by the economic need to leave. The number 2501 is the number of people of Teococuilco, Oaxaca, who have emigrated to California.
Notes: Text in Spanish and English.