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Omar Pimienta, Mobile Consulate, 2012-present
12020-03-26T20:38:57+00:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a689349081Bureaucrartistic performance Photograph by Marcus Herseplain2020-03-26T20:38:57+00:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490
12020-03-26T20:38:55+00:00Omar Pimienta1plain2020-03-26T20:38:55+00:00Omar Pimienta is an artist and writer who lives and works in the San Diego / Tijuana border region. His artistic practice examines questions of identity, trans-nationality, emergency poetics, landscape and memory. His work as a visual artist has been shown at the 3ème Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca Maroc, the museum of Latin Amierican Art Long Beach, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; Encuentro Internacoinal de Medellín Colombia, Centro Cultural de España in Buenos Aires, Argentina; among other events and venues. He has published four books of poetry in México the U.S and Spain. He holds a Ph.D in Literature from the University of California San Diego and a MFA in Visual Arts from the same institution. Welcome to Colonia Libertad is a participatory art piece that emulates the bureaucratic practice of acquiring a passport. Guests will exchange an old voided passport at the Libre Consulate for a new Libre passport, created in situ with a photograph and fingerprints as part of the process. Voided passports become part of the Libre Citizens Archive and will be displayed in future exhibitions.
