Self Constructed Upside Down Shelter
In his work, Abraham Cruzvillegas explores the economic dynamics of the temporary, the artisanal and the recycled. The artist uses production strategies that range from collecting to assembling, but also reinterpreting, materials. Questioning necessity, opportunity and survival, his works take shape within defined perimeters, for example the El Ajusco neighbourhood in Mexico, or the Petite Ceinture, an abandoned railroad track in Paris. Self Constructed Upside Down Shelter proposes a geographic representation born of the unlikely combination of copper and plaster: the work is a map of the world turned upside down, erasing all borders. In this surprising spatiality, where South becomes North, a new balance emerges, enabling the redefinition of flows and exchanges.
Exhibitions
Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Bruxelles (Belgique)
from 05 Mar to 22 Aug 2020