When a River Becomes a Border

Until January 29, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris is showcasing the exhibition Al rio / To the River by Zoe Leonard, an American photographer who spent four years surveying the banks of the mythical border river separating the United States and Mexico. Her politically committed work explores the issues and dynamics of this zone of tension and the contradictions projected onto the natural landscape.

Between the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico to the east and, 1,200 miles west, the cities of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, TX, flows the Rio Grande (or Río Bravo as it is known in Mexico). American photographer Zoe Leonard has been interested in th...

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