Osvaldo Sanchez Libros

Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice, and public space. A collaborative venture of cultural institutions in San Diego and Tijuana, inSITE commissions new work by artists from the Americas.

Mexico has become one of the worlds most vital countries for contemporary art, and this overview shows why. Collected from Mexicos participation in Madrids ARCO art fair as the featured guest country in 2005, the works here, according to curator Osvaldo Sánchez, were chosen simply on the basis of individual merit: It deals neither with