Breeze Blocks was a project presented through Fuego CDMX, an artist-run space in Mexico City, in 2019. The 6 paintings were first installed in the Fuego gallery space, then installed outside different artist-run projects in the city, including Aeromoto, Lagos, Librería Escandalar, 316centro, and STROMBOLI, for two weeks.
These dyed and bleached cotton paintings are based on wrought iron grates, steel fences, and concrete breeze blocks I saw in Mexico City. Economical barriers designed to sift certain bodies, while allowing light and air to pass through. When you walk alongside those ubiquitous, patterned boundaries their optical rhythms respond to your speed and proximity, and a rigid lattice can liquify into frames for a staccato montage of whatever is on the other side.
These dyed and bleached cotton paintings are based on wrought iron grates, steel fences, and concrete breeze blocks I saw in Mexico City. Economical barriers designed to sift certain bodies, while allowing light and air to pass through. When you walk alongside those ubiquitous, patterned boundaries their optical rhythms respond to your speed and proximity, and a rigid lattice can liquify into frames for a staccato montage of whatever is on the other side.
