{"id":5664,"date":"2026-10-05T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:35:26","slug":"rachel-loischild-cordon-sanitaire-2026-southborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/rachel-loischild-cordon-sanitaire-2026-southborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Loischild \u2014 Cordon Sanitaire (2026), Southborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<style id=\"fragment-featured-image-5664\">body.postid-5664 .wp-block-cover:has(img.wp-post-image){min-height:0!important;aspect-ratio:auto!important;padding:0!important}body.postid-5664 .wp-block-cover img.wp-post-image{position:relative!important;width:100%!important;height:auto!important;object-fit:contain!important}body.postid-5664 .wp-block-cover:has(img.wp-post-image) .wp-block-cover__inner-container{display:none}<\/style>\n<div class=\"fragment-video\" style=\"max-width:960px;margin:0 auto\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1231499827?quality=720p\" title=\"Rachel Loischild \u2014 Cordon Sanitaire\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;aspect-ratio:16\/9;border:0\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A willow fence winds through the meadow, interrupts the path and curls into a spiral. In <em>Cordon Sanitaire<\/em>, Rachel Loischild makes a boundary bodily: visitors can enter an enclosure and then leave it. The installation recalls the fences that isolated plague-stricken villages. A familiar material can protect those outside while abandoning those within.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location and dates:<\/strong> Elaine and Philip Beals Preserve, Southborough, Massachusetts, United States. <em>Art on the Trails: Time in the Landscape<\/em>, June 13\u2013September 13, 2026. This documentation of the now-dismantled installation was posted on Vimeo on September 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Based in Boston, Rachel Loischild combines photography, historical research and interventions in the landscape. She examines the traces that systems of control and exclusion leave in places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1231499827\">artist\u2019s video<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelloischild.com\/installations\">installation<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/artonthetrails.com\/2026\/05\/04\/art-on-the-trails-celebrates-10th-anniversary-with-grant-from-southborough-community-fund\/\">exhibition<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/rachel-loischild.squarespace.com\/bio\">biography<\/a>. \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Image licence: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A willow fence makes the boundary between protection and exclusion tangible in the landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}