To make America’s Family Prison, Galindo moved her family into the same kind of mobile detention unit that private contractors use to house imprisoned migrants along the US-Mexico border. Galindo and her family spent 36 hours in the space. This record of their voluntary imprisonment draws attention to America’s growing private prison industry and its perverse accommodation of the nuclear family unit.

Giampaolo Bianconi, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art