Professor Maite Zubiaurre led the creation of an art installation and virtual map honoring those who died.
The exhibit is one part of a project called Mujer Migrante Memorial, a touring urban art installation and accompanying website created to memorialize female migrants and mourn their deaths in the southern Arizona border region, while raising awareness about migrant death in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. The website includes poetry, background information and statistics and, photos. There’s also a map that indicates the exact locations where remains were recovered; on the installation the individual crosses are coated with photography of these locations individualized to where each set of remains were found.
“It’s so horrifying that there are so many bodies found in the desert and that the wall is covered with so many crosses,” said Maite Zubiaurre, a UCLA professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and an artist who signs as Filomena Cruz, who led the creation of the project.
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Written by Madeline Adamo, Features Writer, UCLA Strategic Communications.
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