"Alfredo Libre Gutierrez continues to stare at the border wall that saw him grow up in Tijuana 43 years ago. A wall that the United States now wants to paint black so that the heat will make it even more hostile and more difficult to climb. Libre smiles and says: We responded with color, with love. That is our strength."
"He studied architecture at the Tijuana Institute of Technology, but his calling led him to art. His first project, in 2004, portrayed homeless people, many of them migrants and deportees. Since then, every mural, every sculpture, has been an attempt to give them visibility. I feel very proud to be Mexican and to be able to represent these stories. Taking art to a level that raises awareness and makes people reflect is what interests me the most, he explains."
Alfredo Libre Gutierrez covered a section of the border fence in Playas de Tijuana with a monumental mural titled Shared Flight, depicting a condor and a golden eagle flying wing to wing. The mural draws on an Indigenous prophecy that predicts peace will come when the two birds fly together. The United States plans to paint parts of the wall black to increase heat and make it harder to climb, and Libre responded by filling the fence with color to humanize the inhuman and raise awareness. Libre grew up in Tijuana, lived in Mexico City for 15 years, studied architecture, and has focused his art on migrants, deportees, prison workshops, and migrant shelters to give displaced people visibility.
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