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Daniel Bejar: Poverty Line
This site-specific intervention installs yellow barricade tape reading “Poverty Line Do Not Cross” throughout the rapidly gentrifying area of the Bowery. Using familiar police language as a departure, the intervention illuminates the invisible poverty line associated with income inequality on the Bowery, which at one time defined the term “skid row”. With about 1.7 million New Yorkers living below the official threshold for poverty, ”Poverty Line” makes this reality visible.
Daniel Bejar: Poverty Line
This site-specific intervention installs yellow barricade tape reading “Poverty Line Do Not Cross” throughout the rapidly gentrifying area of the Bowery. Using familiar police language as a departure, the intervention illuminates the invisible poverty line associated with income inequality on the Bowery, which at one time defined the term “skid row”. With about 1.7 million New Yorkers living below the official threshold for poverty, ”Poverty Line” makes this reality visible.