Arqueología del miedo

 

Installation in collaboration with Victor Martínez, for the show "After the body".

Gallery Uno, dos, siete. México city

1998

 

 

''Arqueología del Miedo''
'Archeology of fear'
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Either there aren't bodies but only vestiges of them in their disposables. Starting off of which the discarded things forms a negative image of the subject, therefore it is information that speaks to us of his conduct. We made an exploration 'in situ' in a street of the city of Mexico where it gets used to leaving the garbage so that the metropolitan service or the "pepenadores" (people who grab garbage) gathers it.

In the exhibition appears a display cabinet of a square meter of the original 'findings' and photographies of objects considered significant in the search of violent behaviors accompanied by a series of possible explanations on his origin. The fear is indeed in the speculation. This is applied to the investigation of the past and future. To speculate on the ruins of the conduct is to try to delimit the speech of the facts to have the security of which we have not mistaken the way.

Victor Martínez


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