America's Gulag

In COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.”

COMPLEX exhibit photo courtesy of David Taylor.

For denizens of the borderlands, surveillance is a constant presence. In the last two decades, as the budget for U.S. Customs and Border Protection has tripled to nearly $20 billion, communities have increasingly found themselves monitored by portable radar systems, ground sensors, fixed and mobile surveill…