This exhibition marks the ten-year anniversary of AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), a binational collaborative working along the U.S./Mexico border. Founded in 2016, AMBOS was created to express and document border emotion through art made on opposite sides, offering a platform for artists and communities whose lives are shaped by daily crossing, separation, and interdependence. 

Bringing together projects from the past decade, the exhibition traces the evolution of AMBOS from a border-site activation to a sustained practice rooted in craft, care, documentation, and mutual aid. Across installations, performances, and collective actions, the work reflects the shifting political and social landscape of the borderlands while foregrounding lived experience as a form of knowledge. 

This anniversary presentation looks both backward and forward. In addition to revisiting ten years of collaborative work, the exhibition serves as a gathering point to initiate a second Border Quipu, extending AMBOS’ commitment to collective mark-making as testimony, memory, and connection across geographies.