Artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz is the next contemporary artist to transform the Museum’s sloping gallery on the first floor with a new site-specific commission. Based in Texas, Muñoz is celebrated for her work that addresses the dichotomies of the Mexican American experience through photography, works on paper, and various multimedia. In El Límite, Muñoz explores the railroad and its role in the connection and division of countries, traditions, cultures, and languages.

Muñoz originally exhibited El Límite in in 1991 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. For her installation at the Carter, the artist will augment the presentation of her two large-scale photographs with direct references to and works by Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, whose practice Muñoz first encountered at the Carter in his 1980 solo exhibition Posada’s Mexico.