Jorge Méndez Blake (born 1974) is a Mexican

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conceptual artist. Trained as an architect, the artist builds walls and connects their history to literature. He lives and works in

Guadalajara Guadalajara ( ; ) is the capital and the most populous city in the western Mexican List of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco, as well as the most densely populated municipality in Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population ...

, Mexico. At the James Cohan Gallery in New York, he exhibited a wall entitled Amerika, based on a

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of Litera ...

novel, during the time of the

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when president Donald Trump was advocating to build the wall between the U.S. Mexican border. In this sense, his work could be seen as border art. His work focuses on writing as "a kind of construction," using his brick sculptures to connect architecture to literature. He has exhibited widely in international bienniales and museums.

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Jorge Mendez Blake's works Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blake, Jorge Mendez 1974 births Living people Mexican artists Artists from Guadalajara, Jalisco