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Constructed Evidence: Work by Louis Hock 2000-2006
August 29 - October 15, 2006Louis Hock is a San Diego–based artist whose films, videotapes, and media installations over the past 20 years have often focused on the U.S./Mexican border region and addressed issues relating to undocumented workers and immigration. Constructed Evidence presents three major installations—Pirámide del Sol: A Monument to Invisible Labor (2000), Shelter (2002-6), and American Desert (2006), plus a photographic suite, Nightscope Series—providing a rare opportunity to survey Hock’s work from the past six years, none of which has been shown in the Los Angeles area. Pirámide del Sol, exhibited most recently at the La Panaderia in Mexico City, consists of hundreds of polypropylene plastic berry baskets stacked into a pyramid. The work compares the labor essential to the construction of the ancient Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan to the picking of millions of tons of strawberries in California.
Image Credit: Louis Hock, Pirámide del Sol: A Monument to Invisible Labor, 2002, Polypropylene plastic baskets, 6.5' x 9' x 9' feet high.
