Objects left behind by undocumented migrants on their journey into the United States, including backpacks, water bottles, and border restrains, form the basis of this exhibition looking at the human experience of crossing the U.S./Mexico border. Viewers are asked to consider the complexities of the found objects through video and images created on location along the Arizona border.

“The backpacks, which were abandoned on the American side of the border not far from Tucson, are just some of the artifacts that an anthropologist named Jason De Léon has been collecting there since 2009 for the Undocumented Migration Project, which he directs at the University of Michigan.

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