Starting this Friday, October 14th, Hector Zamora and Santiago Sierra will be participating in “Un lugar en un momento. Prácticas de Sitio Específico”, a group show at the Carrillo Gil Museum, that reviews the site-specific practices developed in Mexico City between the 1990s and 2000s.

Zamora will present “Paracaidista”, an experimental construction made in 2004 on the museum’s facade, which was inhabited for the artist during 3 months. Inspired by the urban population processes of the suburbs of Mexico City, the work uses organic strategies to create a symbiotic, parasite relationship with the building, the city, the institution and/or the people.

The artist will also present the video of “Pneu” (2003), intervention in which a handmade, red plastic cylinder constantly filled with air invades the exterior and interior spaces of a gallery. The three-dimensional body, with curves and bifurcations, explores and occupies the building generating with its own dynamics a reflection about mobility and permanency.

Santiago Sierra will present two works made in 1998, while he resided in Mexico City: “Obstruction of A Freeway with a Truck’s Trailer” and “Car raised 60cm”. For the making of the first work, the artist asked for permission to borrow a company’s truck, without concealing the purpose for its use. The driver didn’t mind when he was asked to block the side lanes of one of the city’s busiest roads for five minutes, generating a traffic jam.

For the second work, the artist used his place of residence in Mexico City. “A car was borrowed and parked in front of my apartment window. It was then bound with plastic ropes that came through my room, and were tied to a column in the building’s courtyard, forcing the door to be open and transforming my private space into part of the exhibition. The ropes were tightened, elevating the car 60cm sideways".