Radio Latina

2014 HD Video

This video comprises thousands of images extracted from Google street view, ensembled frame by frame to create a continuous movement as if driving along the adjacent roads to the Mexico-US border, which remains constantly on the horizon as seen from the Mexican side.

The sound is the result of a random recording from a bilingual radio station dedicated to Mexican audiences living in the US.

The work accentuates the conflicts that arise between the arbitrary delimitation of borders and the construction of identity that is built with (and despite) physical barriers and political delimitations. While stark wall attempts to separate people and territories, the Internet affords somehow biased accessibility to information while radio waves move unencumbered through the air, delivering data to all who have the capability of receiving it.