For this exhibition, I was commissioned to create a monumental piece for the courtyard of the Museo de la Ciudad de México—a government institution that invited me to produce a work in dialogue with Alfred Whitehead Reading Room by Siah Armajani.

My concept revolved around creating a backdrop for Armajani's piece, how it functions and what it implies.

 In Mexico City, the government frequently erects barricades during protests. These consist of modular metal units—frames with metal faces—that, when placed side by side, form large public divisions. Due to governmental neglect, many of these barricades remain for months after protests, becoming symbols of contemporary urban landscape..

For my proposal, I measured the museum’s façade and calculated that forty such units would be needed to cover it. Each frame (3 m × 3 m) was fabricated as an empty structure removing its dividing  function to create a hollow icon of public fragmentation.

Although initially planned for the museum’s courtyard, the piece was relocated indoors by petition of Mexico's ministry of culture  due to its political connotations. The final work consisted of forty metal frames arranged in a 9-meter-long line extending from one corner of the hall to the other.