Hostile Terrain 94

EKALAN HOU is a junior double majoring in English and Art History. She is a
Student Guide at the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection.
OTHER WORKS CONSULTED:
Aviles, Mary. “Data Visualization as an Act of Witnessing.” Nightingale, March 4,
2020. https://medium.com/nightingale/data-visualization-as-an-act-ofwitnessing-33e346f5e437.
De León, Jason, Cameron Gokee, and Ashley Schubert. “ ‘By the Time I Get to
Arizona’: Citizenship, Materiality, and Contested Identities along the US-
Mexico Border.” Anthropological Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): 445–79. https://doi.
org/10.1353/anq.2015.0022.
De León, Jason, Cameron Gokee, and Anna Forringer-Beal. “ ‘Disruption,’ Use Wear,
and Migrant Habitus in the Sonoran Desert.” In Migration and Disruptions,
edited by Brenda J. Baker and Takeyuki Tsuda, 145–78. Gainesville: University
Press of Florida, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813060804.003.0007.
EMBODIMENT: MANUEL NERI, HOSTILE
TERRAIN 94, AND THE DEPICTION OF
VIOLENCE IN ART
MELISSA SANTOS
The human body has long been used in art to explore the human
condition—life and death, the personal and the political. In paintings
and in sculpture, the depiction of the body beckons us to reflect on
our own fragility and humanity. Manuel Neri’s life-size sculptures of
women in plaster are an example of an artist’s attempt to capture body
language and movement. The textured surface of pieces like Marble Relief
Maquette No. 3 (1983) (fig. 3) and Standing Figure II (1982) (fig. 4) evidence
his handiwork and evoke a profound emotional response; the sculptures
convey the sense of intimacy Neri felt with his subjects, such as his lifelong
muse, Mary Julia Klimenko, who posed for both aforementioned works. 1
Gokee, Cameron, and Jason De León. “Sites of Contention: Archaeological
Classification and Political Discourse in the US-Mexico Borderlands.” Journal
of Contemporary Archaeology 1, no. 1 (2014): 133–63. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.
v1i1.133.
Gokee, Cameron, Haeden Stewart, and Jason De León. “Scales of Suffering in the
US-Mexico Borderlands.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-019-00535-6.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. “On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to
Precision-Nested Scales.” Common Knowledge 18, no. 3 (2012), 505–24. https://
doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-1630424.
Toe tags, Hostile Terrain 94 at the Anderson Collection {detail}, 2020
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1
Sidney Simon, “Standing Figure II,” Anderson Collection at Stanford University website, accessed
July 21 2020, https://anderson.stanford.edu/collection/untitled-standing-figure-by-manuel-neri/.
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