On Esperanza Road II . 2019/2022
Following the river’s course from the border cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico, Leonard considers the conflation of, and boundaries between, nature and politics as they manifest in the landscape. The artist depicts the river and surrounding borderlands with an eye for the complexity of the various ecosystems, communities, and histories that converge at the river – from families swimming off the riverbank at Ciudad Juárez,to helicopters and border patrol vehicles on sentry; and from dams and irrigation canals, to bridges and boundarymarkers.
Hauser & Wirth
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