May 28 to June 25, 2005,

Installation of variable measures.

Pedro “Zulu” Gonzalez

Jokes that start by posing: “an American (gringo), a German, an Italian and a Mexican…” and that end with a quip by the Mexican getting rid of the seemingly hopeless situation (“…so, now give a damn about it”). Machines that should have stopped working several decades ago and that continue to function through additions, patches, and other third-world solutions. A Halloween costume that returns year after year through fixes that make the Shrek of one year become the Hulk of the next. The sagacity of the national cleverness is already part -verified or not- of our cultural repertoire (even extending to the way in which a text approaches the topic). 

Pedro “Zulu” González starts from this social assumption to ask, “What would happen if the entire country exploded, launching us into space and with no possibility of returning?” The answer is waiting for us inside. We find it extremely funny, resonant, and why not to say it…? Clever. After witnessing such a sight, the following doubt entered our mind: Is the city really sinking or are we being launched into space in slow motion?