Upon walking into the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the first thing the viewer is greeted with is a creaking, slowly spinning, rusted mobile. Trials and Terrors is a showing of large-scale multimedia installations the MCA describes as “transformation through hardship and evocations of sinister phenomena and events.”

In Juarez there are 550 (American) factories with approximately 3000 employees at each. There is a gender tension, because the factories that are down there are assembly factories. The women are hired to do textile assembly, and then the items are retransported to the US, for cheap labor cost. The men don't have any work, and the women are making about $4 a day working in these factories.