"The houses and buildings are left like bodies in decomposition, they are disappearing like dehumanised bodies; abandoned, vandalised. Everyone knows that people left so that nothing would happen to them; they have left behind them spaces where something occurred and where the question is, what will Ciudad Juárez be converted into."
Leobardo Alvarado, "La ciudad que desaparece", written for the exhibition Beyond Borders - Mexican Public Art, Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden, 2010.
