An Oriental Minute in Occidental Music

An Oriental Minute in Occidental Music,2008 Installation. Installation. Musical instruments, stethoscopes and cables, glass and metal.Variable dimensions Go back When I conceived of this work, I thought about how the structure of traditional Western music is tonal and mathematically precise. It is exponential. In a way it is a simple structure. In contrast, the atonal […]

My personal library grows along with my political principles

My personal library grows along with my political principles, 2008, 2008 Books, mini-DV videos, mp4 players, wood Variable dimensions Go back In this installation I try to dismantle the hypocrisy that hides behind the massive landing, in the Chinese architectural and urban planning field, of those architects who today make up the star system of […]

How my Brazilian library feeds on fragments of a concrete reality

How my Brazilian library feeds on fragments of a concrete reality2006-2008 Installation. Books, concrete, 9 mm bullets Teixeira de Freitas Collection Go back How my Brazilian library feeds on fragments of a concrete reality refers to the skyscrapers of Rio de Janeiro. It represents an important political and expansionist period in Brazil. The rise of […]

And Jesus said to Lazarus… (project for public square)

And Jesus said to Lazarus… (project for public square), 2003 Installation. Wood, bronze, metal, PVC, mixed media, vinyl text and video. Variable dimensions Go back And Jesus said to Lazarus… is the model of a public square project and a video shown on the wall. It consists of an equestrian sculpture of a headless national […]

Deleuze and Guattari arranging the rhizome

Deleuze and Guattari arranging the rhizome, 2008 Installation. Hammers, nails. Variable dimensions. Go back This installation was first presented in the solo exhibition “Revolution or Rhizome”, Galleria Continua, Beijing (2008). It has subsequently been part of other exhibitions at Château de Blandy-Les-Tours (2009), MAMM, Medellín (2010), CAB de Burgos (2011) or Galleria Continua, Paris (2023). […]

I don’t want to see my neighbors anymore II

I don’t want to see my neighbors anymore II, 2006 Permanent installation. Brick, concrete, foam and metal. Castello di Ama per L’Arte Contemporanea Collection, Giaole in Chianti, Italy. Go back These walls have marked political borders throughout history, sometimes reinforcing the natural boundary, such as the Havana seawall that marks the coast, that natural border […]

Portrait (Europe)

Portrait (Europa), 2006 Installation. Pine wood, black and white photography, color photography and metal. Indefinite deposit of the Reina Sofia Museum Foundation, 2022 (Donated by Jorge Perez) Go back This installation, consisting of photographs of the capitals of the European Union in 2006 and coins stacked in a wooden display case, explores the notion of […]

Postcapital

Postcapital, 2006 Installation. Wood, metal, polychrome plaster, PVC, cardboard. Variable dimensions. Installation view at Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona Ontario Art Gallery Collection (AGO) Go back Postcapitalis an attempt to define the coordinates in which contemporary capital can be understood and the displacements it has undergone in the last 15 years with the fall of […]

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