All Things Living, All Things Dead
These projects are inscribed in places that are equally crossed by hydric and territorial disputes. Shaped by a spirit of research, they may entail the production of installations, images, encounters, and texts. These products function as components of a knowledge system, which opens a space beyond the idea of the artwork as final result.
All Things Living, All Things Dead: Lake Texcoco
All Things Living, All Things Dead: Lake Texcoco is set on the basin of Lake Texcoco, a lake that was violently desiccated by colonial settlers and currently exists as a territory at the margins of Mexico City. Ever since its desiccation, this lake has been transformed in multiple ways. This project accounts for the complex condition of this place, through two exercises of critical appropriation. The encyclopedia and the museum, traditionally conceived as containers of absolute knowledge, account for the singularities, fragments, and narratives of a place that has been forcefully destabilized.
The Living Library
The Living Library is an artistic research project that reanimates a newspaper collection kept in the main tower of the former Jalisco State Public Library (in Guadalajara, Mexico). This project seeks to restitute its function to the building sheltering this archive—lost since its closing in 1995—by deploying, critically reading, and activating its newspapers.
Water Spells
Water Spells conjures the ways water has been named within the Mexico City metropolitan area. It is at the same time the memoir of a polyphony of voices from different realms of thought and practice: communal organizations, the arts and academia. These voices whisper the names of water, one and many at once: lake, river, rain, source, spring, aquifer, harvesting system, flood, and sewage. Whispered and shared in a common space, these names with their stories, modes of knowledge, and experiences, have contributed to piece together this ever broken continuum.