Please join us for the first event to accompany We have as much time as it takes, the thesis exhibition for the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. As one of the 10 featured international artists and collectives in the exhibition, artist Sandra Nakamura will talk about her site-specific installation, A line in the water.

For this work, Nakamura translated the once-imaginary lines traced by surveyors on the San Francisco bay's water to delineate a standard water lot or 50 square vara (an obsolete unit of measure which is slightly smaller than a yard) into a shiny surface consisting of 100,000 pennies. The installation began with an ordinary financial transaction; the artist borrowed money from the CCA community, exchanged it into coins, and then transformed the coins into an artwork.

About the Artist
Sandra Nakamura was born in 1981 in Lima, Peru. In recent years, Nakamura has developed a series of coin installations that speak of the value, both real and symbolic, of property. These pieces, which have been presented in various locations—including Spain, Peru, and Japan—belong to a larger body of work created in response to land speculation and the indiscriminate privatization of space. This will be her first coin-installation project in the United States.