​Torax / LIGA 30
2019
location: Mexico City, Mexico
Status: Built
 
A construction that reminds us of the rib cage of a great whale, trapped inside the gallery space itself. The "thorax" is fragile and flexible at the same time, a
space that simultaneously represses and protects our vital organs: between prison and protective cave. It is difficult to know if the wooden structure in question is the fragile beginning of a construction (the wooden studs of a work in progress), or if it is its ruin, that what remains after the shipwreck. The reductive, but explicit tectonics - in this case the pinewood slats and their joints articulated with ixtle-cord - is a key element in Escobedo Soliz's work. But here, the disjunction between the envelope (the floor, ceiling and walls of the gallery) and the interior temporary construction, generate an interstitial space: a witness of the friction that exists between the constructive logic and the architectural obsession. The exhibition questions whether architecture has the capacity to liberate and emancipate us, or if, in its naive ideological aspiration, it only makes us prisoners of its own system.
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Project:
Escobedo Soliz 
Team:
Andrés Soliz
Lazbent Escobedo
Maximiliano Animas
Hiroshi Ando
Alberto Caldelón
Construction:
La invencible - Alejandro Tapia 


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