maanantai 23. heinäkuuta 2007

RIIKO SAKKINEN: WETBACK TOWEL (2006)



Riiko Sakkinen: Wetback Towel (2006)

100 x 106 cm

Embroidery on cotton towel

"Wetback is a derogatory term for a Mexican who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border, often by either swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Wet back (Spanish: espalda mojada) is also used in an equally pejorative way in Spain to refer to illegal immigrants from Morocco who cross the Straits of Gibraltar."

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