14.1 x 21 cm
85 pages
500 numbered copies
30 limited editions
2017

The installation Smoke Architecture (80m2 Gallery – Livia Benavides) sets in motion a radical transformation of the gallery, which during the exhibition is transformed into a sort of fully operational “Pre-Industrial Factory” of artisanal bricks, producing approximately 500 bricks per week.

The organization of work, the regulation of people's movement, and the systematization of production, to which the installation alludes, involve a series of physical and social mechanisms of population control. But all these references are framed within the context of an artistic project that itself involves other dynamics.

By transforming the gallery into a factory, a workshop, and a construction zone, Ximena Garrido-Lecca combines diverse production models, labor regimes, modalities of power, development plans, and notions of progress. The different overlapping strata can be read as a cross-section of a confusing and often contradictory process of political, social, and economic transformation (it is no coincidence that, given the absence of workers during gallery viewing hours, the factory and the construction site can also be read as paralyzed).

14.1 x 21 cm
85 pages
500 numbered copies
30 limited editions
2017

The installation Smoke Architecture (80m2 Gallery – Livia Benavides) sets in motion a radical transformation of the gallery, which during the exhibition is transformed into a sort of fully operational “Pre-Industrial Factory” of artisanal bricks, producing approximately 500 bricks per week.

The organization of work, the regulation of people's movement, and the systematization of production, to which the installation alludes, involve a series of physical and social mechanisms of population control. But all these references are framed within the context of an artistic project that itself involves other dynamics.

By transforming the gallery into a factory, a workshop, and a construction zone, Ximena Garrido-Lecca combines diverse production models, labor regimes, modalities of power, development plans, and notions of progress. The different overlapping strata can be read as a cross-section of a confusing and often contradictory process of political, social, and economic transformation (it is no coincidence that, given the absence of workers during gallery viewing hours, the factory and the construction site can also be read as paralyzed).