Property Lines, New York /

Property lines, New York

Title: Property Lines, New York / Property Lines, New York

Year: 2008

Measures: 45.7 x 60.9 cm c/u, 142 x 1460 cm total

Technique: 72 rubbed graphite on paper

Edition: 2/5

Property Lines, New York (Property Lines), is a collection of rubbed soil of graphite on paper, that document 72 plates of property lines established by its owners in the villages of the city of New York, whose presence is justified as an item to avoid shots (Adverse Possession).

Made during the financial debacle and subsequent bank bailout of 2008, the work is both a performance at the boundaries between private property and the public, as a series of drawings that exist beyond their place of origin. Occupations short shape as a silent protest, a question insistent and repetitive on the validity of these limits in a historical moment where it was demonstrated that the free market is not such. This file is rubbed, isolated on sheets of paper, in its volume, variety of shapes and fonts, it operates as the portrait of an era and of an ideology, taking that small and incidental damages under our steps to reveal its systemic dimension.