Caroline Borja
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Carolina Borja was born in San Diego California, and lived in the border city of Tijuana before establishing in Mexico City. Borja studied Industrial Design with a minor in Mexican Folk Art. Her work meets at an intersection of sculpture, public art, and Mexican craft.
She incorporates urban and craft elements; papier-mâché, tissue paper, crepe paper, thread, concrete, wood, and cartonería, often reflecting on topics such as urban mobility, growth and cross-culture.
All the works on submitted are part of "Breaking Point”. A work created in 2024 which includes photography, concrete, glass and fabric.
Breaking Point explores the materiality of objects that confront each other, yet exist in the same space, in her series, Breaking Point. Inspired by day-to-day interactions between the natural landscape and urban concrete foundations, The work proposes that notions of vulnerability and strength are synonyms, rather than opposing concepts, offering metaphors for relationships, while commenting on Houston’s growing landscape.
Breaking Point is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
