{"id":367,"date":"2019-11-14T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salvavision.org\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2019-11-14T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:43:27","slug":"el-sueno-americano-the-american-dream-photographs-by-tom-kiefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/11\/14\/el-sueno-americano-the-american-dream-photographs-by-tom-kiefer\/","title":{"rendered":"El Sue\u00f1o Americano | The American Dream: Photographs by Tom Kiefer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignfull wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Los Amuletos Migran (The Amulets Migrate), 2019\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pGvguiAM2MU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Amuletos Migran (The Amulets Migrate), 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to migrants\u2019 rights advocate Dora Rodriguez&#8217;s story of crossing the US-Mexico border in 1980 and the context and meaning she gives to Tom Kiefer&#8217;s collection of items that were taken from migrants at the  border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>About the Exhibition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>How\n we treat the most vulnerable\u2014including migrants seeking a better \nlife\u2014defines our character as a nation. Drawn from the photographic \nseries of the same name, <em>El Sue\u00f1o Americano | The American Dream: Photographs by Tom Kiefer<\/em>\n asks us to consider how we treat migrants as a reflection of who we are\n and who we want to be as Americans. Responding to the dehumanizing \ntreatment migrants face in detention, Kiefer carefully arranged and \nphotographed objects seized and discarded by border officials\u2014objects \ndeemed \u201cpotentially lethal\u201d or \u201cnon-essential\u201d among a variety of \nbelongings crucial for sustenance, hygiene, protection, comfort, and \nemotional strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiefer found these items in the garbage while working as a janitor at\n a Customs and Border Protection station in Ajo, Arizona from 2003 \nthrough 2014. While obtaining permission to donate discarded food items \nto a local pantry, Kiefer noticed the deeply personal items he also \nfound discarded each day: letters, clothing, toys, medications and \ntoiletries. Moved by the untold stories these objects embody, Kiefer \ncommemorates them in photographs akin to portraits, salvaging and \npreserving traces of human journeys cut short.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>El Sue\u00f1o Americano | The American Dream: Photographs by Tom Kiefer<\/em>&nbsp;presents\n a selection of more than one hundred photographs from Kiefer\u2019s ongoing \nproject, along with newly recorded video interviews with the artist and \nwith migrants who have themselves crossed the border. Additional \ninterpretation will outline the history of restrictive immigration \npolicies in the United States and connect visitors with organizations \ninvolved in legal and humanitarian aid and advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blending documentary and fine art photography, Kiefer\u2019s images are a  poignant testament to the hardships of migration and a call to return to  human decency in how we treat each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Amuletos Migran (The Amulets Migrate), 2019Listen  to migrants\u2019 rights advocate Dora Rodriguez&#8217;s story of crossing the  US-Mexico border in 1980 and the context and meaning she gives to Tom  Kiefer&#8217;s collection of items that were taken from migrants at the  border.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salvavision.org\/2019\/11\/14\/el-sueno-americano-the-american-dream-photographs-by-tom-kiefer\/\">Salvavision<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Amuletos Migran (The Amulets Migrate), 2019 Listen to migrants\u2019 rights advocate Dora Rodriguez\u2019s story of crossing the US-Mexico border in 1980 and the context and meaning she\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,246,247,242,248,238,249],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762493,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/762493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}