Globalizing Mexican Art

“Chapter 6: Globalizing Mexican Art” illustrates how inSITE facilitated the entrance of young Mexico City artists into the nascent global contemporary art industry, aiding the internationalization of the Mexican contemporary art scene through this new outpost in the frontera norte. It outlines a history of site-oriented art practice in twentieth-century Mexico and compares different approaches to site-oriented art practice in North Atlantic art worlds. The chapter closely dissects the work for the US/Mexico borderlands of artists Silvia Gruner, Helen Escobedo, Felipe Ehrenberg, Sofía Táboas, Abraham Cruzvillegas, and Eduardo Abaroa. It contends that the conversions facilitated by inSITE helped enact transformative changes in the aesthetic programs of Mexican contemporary art production.