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Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present Emblems of the Decade: Borders, an installation by Bay-Area based artist Amalia Mesa-Bains. The exhibition is organized to coincide with the first major retrospective of Mesa-Bains’ work, Archaeology of Memory, now on view at the Berkeley Art Museum through July 23, 2023.

Emblems of the Decade: Borders is an immersive presentation, including multiple elements which address concerns of displacement, deterritorialization, and immigration facing Latinx and Chicanx communities in the United States. Central to the installation is a dresser turned alter, …