URBAN LANDSCAPES SERIES - MEXICO CITY
Place: This Project was carried out in Mexico City and exhibited as a Project Room at the MACO contemporary art fair.
Year: 2012

This piece has to do with a series of works and thoughts initiated in 2009 and through strategies of concealment and surfacing, aims to deny the memory of objects, things, situations, symbols and/ or landscapes as a means of silencing their memory; as a subversion of memory and our emotional affiliation with our social environment.

This operation is proposed as a method for preventing the “charging” of objects, as if we wished to deny them. It is in this utopian logic that this piece tries to arrive at a zero-degree of figurativeness or extreme figurativeness, and is only built in response to the notions of suspension and habitability of the three-dimensional form, which is realized in the intervention and deployment with respect to the relationship between work and place.

I developed a series of works that operated under the same logic of the Pepenadores, people who wander in the city streets dragging a cart they fill with objects strewn about to sell them. For this project, I spent two weeks gathering objects that might reflect the imagery of Mexico City and then grouped them in an almost “incestuous” manner in what I called “a sculptural event” loaded with readings associated with the context, the social context and the roots of the provenance of these objects, playing with balances and imbalances, constructing parodies that set up reflections about the image of surfaced precariousness that, in the end, lays bare the real image of what is Latin American and its spatial policies.

technical description.
Collecting tricycle, found objects, maskingtape.
Variable dimensions.

BACK