La Soledad

residency contemporary art poetic conceptual Mexican artist Zeitgeist ephimeral

"Rebuilt Legacy". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.
All four panels of a single refrigerator's packaging box which was purchased before arriving at destination.
(1) Frontal archway view. (2,3) Frontal corridor views. (4,5) Entrance gate views.

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"Workout routine to fly a ball". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.
Punctured balls collected from residents of neighboring settlements. The art piece was conceived as the result of a daily physical activity during residence in which the goal was to throw the obsolete balls into an architectural crevice without them bouncing back.
(1) Frontal archway view. (2) Stuck ball over the target. (3) Frontal view, detail.

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"Legacy guardians". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.
Assembled ceiba tree logs. Remains from "Rebuilt legacy" also in images.
(1) Frontal view. (2,3) Frontal guardian views, detail. (4) Mountain view.

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"Tree and its fruit tied together". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.
(1) Closeup view. (2) Triggering stimuli (the Hacienda caretaker's dog). (2) Full view.

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"Ticks". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.
White pillows stuck on tree's branches.
(1) "Ticks" on a tree near the Hacienda's entrance gate. (2) Triggering stimuli: an actual tick on the Hacienda caretaker's dog.
(3) The Hacienda caretaker's daughters playing a made up game where the goal is to stick more pillows on a tree than your opponent.

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"Bridge between communities". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.
A single bambu stick layed down and inserted into two separate ant hives.
(1) Full view. (2) Triggering stimuli: wide view of the Hacienda and the nearby Zapatista settlements. (3) Closeup view.

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"I broke the last cup and more mountains arised". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"I accidentally dropped amaranto on the floor and ants rose to make a new constellation", Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Oil paint dryer". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Four steps". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.
A four step ladder built by piling up four functioning or broken ladders in horizontal way.

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"Three parking spaces". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Yellow submarine". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Constellations". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Life in an empty pool". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Decay on a muddy road". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Nest". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"First stage of an intervation". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Five unfinished esquites". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Castaway watermelons". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Rebuilt bench". San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Polar puddle". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Dreamt intervention". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Public line". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Art galley wanted". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.
Various objects collected traversing by foot the Pueblo Mágico's (tourism) main boulevard on a single day and displayed on a private local piñata workshop for image recording.
(1) All the used bottle caps of the boulevard taquerías. (2) Transporting wheelbarrow. (3)Parked hawkers. (4) "Stimuli filter", workshop. (5) "Stimuli filter", kitchen. (6) "Stimuli filter", chair. (7) "Stimuli filter", patio. (8) Bottle caps, patio. (9) Floating packaging tape. (9) Twisted wires, workshop.

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"Vestige". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Protected legacy". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Family sepulcher". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"brb". Neighbor settlement to Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"These ain't my eggs!". Neighboring settlement to Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Secret Passageway". Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Light transit". Neighboring settlement to Hacienda La Soledad, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"¡¡PALATNO CAHILAARAS CAMINO: CHRAECAPLJROCEOMS-LIAONRO!S!AS 1C9N82T-E1998". Interstate freeway, Chiapas, Mexico, 2016.

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"Shadows on garden". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, México, 2016.

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"Uncovered roots". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, México, 2016.

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"Traveler's vestige". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, México, 2016.

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"Street taqueria vestige". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, México, 2016.

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"Stones that didn't make it to the drainage". Comitán de Dominguez, Chiapas, México, 2016.

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