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Jaime Permuth:
Yonkeros
Dates:
February 28–April 5, 2012
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, March 7 from 5:00 to 6:45pm
Artist Talk:
Saturday, March 24 from 2:00 to 3:00pm
Location:
Pregones Theater
571 - 575 Walton Avenue
(between 149 & 150th Streets, one block west of the Grand Concourse)
Bronx, NY 10451 tel: 718-585-1202
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9:30am to 5:30pm with extended hours during show nights.
Check www.pregones.org for those extended hours.
Statement:
""Yonkeros" is a popular term for businesses that strip wrecked cars and sell them as scrap metal or for parts. The term is a Spanglish derivative of "junk", conjugated grammatically to refer to people who engage in this line of work.
Yonkeros is a lyrical exploration of first world consumerism, waste, and obsolescence as it intersects with the third world ingenuity and survivalist strategies in the no–man's–land of Willets Point Queens, NY.
This series of photographs is both an appeal and a eulogy; the City of New York is determined to erase the existence of this small enclave, not withstanding that it continues to provide an essential service to the community and that it constitutes a source of income and employment to a segment of the city's immigrant working class.
Above all, Willets Point is a vast inventory of parts, and like all catalogues it is also a poem."
More information can be found here:http://www.enfoco.org/
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