Home Land Security

Occupying a suite of former military structures overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Home Land Security brings together works by contemporary artists and collectives from around the globe to reflect on the human dimensions of national security, including the physical and psychological borders we create, protect, and cross in its name. Extending FOR-SITE’s focus on provocative art about place, the exhibition invites viewers into spaces that served for decades as key sites in the US Army’s Coastal Defense System. The 18 featured artists have myriad points of origin — including China, Cuba, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Syria, the United States, and Vietnam — underscoring the universality of themes of home, safety, and defense in an increasingly pervasive climate of fear and distrust. Home Land Security builds on previous artistic collaborations with the National Park Service, the Presidio Trust, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and commemorates the park service’s centennial.