Americas Wall (2020)

This performance was inspired by the persistent questioning Tanya faces regarding the existence of a wall in her travels across the US and Mexico It documents and extracts evidence of the walls existencethere are three consecutive walls in the part of Mexico where grew upin front of Trumps proposed wall prototypes This section of border fence at Shroud of Turin is made up of corrugated jet landing mats that were recycled from the Gulf WarDesert Storm It was erected during Operation Gatekeeper a strategic reinforcement of the USMexico Border which was responsible for more migrant deaths in its first year than in the entirety of the previous seventy five years of Border Patrol History She and her team took rust impressions from these walls on cotton as evidence of their existence