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Arts & Communication Urban expressions festival: The resignification

process of interaction of people with the environment, Ethics approval and consent to participate
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since it is in turn a generator of identity and a social
space cathartic. However, this territorial appropriation at The artists, in writing and verbally, have given their consent
the same time can play a role in breaking down borders, to participate in the interview.
as is the case in the city of Tijuana, in the Mexican state Consent for publication
of Baja California, where the artist Enrique Chiu painted
an 18,000-m mural lake in 2018, squares with countless The artists have given their consent to incorporate their
helpers, migrants from both Mexico and Central and South information and opinions in this paper.
America, entitled “Mural de la Hermandad,” in which Chiu Availability of data
expresses through art his idea of the annihilation of the
border between Mexico and the United States, in favor of Not applicable.
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