Installation “Oh My Cannibal”
José León Cerrillo
November 12, 2015
The fifth Interlude of our cycle is conducted by José León Cerrillo. The artist revisits his project Oh My Cannibal—presented in New York in 2008— and presents his site-specific installation Carne at LIGA’s Penthouse as an echo of the original project.
Oh My Cannibal took as its starting point the figure of the Cannibal proposed by Oswald de Andrade in his Manifesto Eating (1928) transposed to local considerations, particularly central iconographies of the construction of the Mexican modernity. Thus, the project you met in a sort of index references to Mario Pani, University City and the Sculptoric Space of Mathias Goeritz, resolved as: 1. Serigraphs on paper and acetate in a rack poster, which were interrupted, completed and encimaban to be seen and / or swallowed; 2. A structure taking proportions of the buildings collapsed by Multifamiliar Juarez demolished after the 1985 earthquake, which served as inspiration for a poem by Augusto de Campos; 3. A blocked window with lime and water in the way in which black works are done.
ABOUT UNDISCIPLINED INTERLUDES: This cycle explores the relationships that spawn in the intersection of disciplines and collaborative work. Through the work of invited authors in Theater, Cinema, Literature and Visual Arts, a series of events around space appropriation are proposed. The encounters on this cycle are interventions in themselves which allow the artists to test and expand their practice from analytic, thoughtful and creative methods similar to the processes of architectural projection.
