Xandra Ibarra is an artist whom I’ve never heard of or seen her work. After doing some research and reviewing her websites, I found myself down a rabbit whole or her work. Her performances and videos were very interesting to watch, but one work that was most memorable and left me wanting to know if my interpretation was right was her short film “La Corrida” (2012 and 2018). In the 2012 video, you see Ibarra running across what it seems to be a desert and not stopping. We are given various angles of her running and do not stop throughout the whole video. The 2018 version of “La Corrida” is the same video, but over another video of the US-Mexico border. In this version we see the border portal monitoring cars that are passing and inspecting vehicles. The message I believe Ibarra is trying to send to her audience is the struggles that the undocumented migrants who cross the border on foot face under the raging heat of the desert. The second video criticizes the border portal and how hard-headed they could be towards these migrants. Through Ibarra’s artwork, she is very much transparent and strives to be a voice for the voiceless. I admire her work very much and her ability to open herself up to her audience and the rest of the public.
I think after watching and looking through Ibarra work, one question I have is was there ever a time when a piece and/or performance ever went wrong and didn’t go as planned?
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