Dahn Vo & Abraham Cruzvillegas @ Museo Jumex

"Vo’s work explores the intersections of personal experience and major historical events, including the impact and mutations of Catholicism as it spread through colonization. His artworks reflect on the paradoxes inherent to the construction of identity. His use of objects evokes the historical circumstances that shape contemporary life: “I don’t believe that things come from within you. To me things come out of the continuous dialogue you have with your surroundings,” he has said." [source]

"Over the past ten years, Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico City, 1968) has developed a riveting body of work that investigates what he calls autoconstrucción, or “self-construction.” Interested in improvised building materials and techniques, he roots his sculptural practice within the urban landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco, a district in the south of Mexico City where structures remain in a constant state of transformation as additions are made when materials become available and necessity dictates. This way of constructing has become the basis of Cruzvillegas’s own thinking and methodology, while operating as a rich metaphor for the articulation of individual identity and place." [source]