Jorge Méndez Blake
Mexican artist
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Jorge Méndez Blake (born 1974) is a Mexican mixed-media conceptual artist. Trained as an architect,[1] the artist builds walls[2] and connects their history to literature. He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.[3]
At the James Cohan Gallery in New York, he exhibited a wall entitled Amerika, based on a Franz Kafka novel, during the time of the government shutdown when president Donald Trump was advocating to build the wall between the U.S. Mexican border.[4] 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.[5] He has exhibited widely in international bienniales and museums.[6]