From August 13 to November 15, 2015
LA FAVORITA Colectivo: Zazil Barba, Alberto López Corcuera y Álvaro Ugarte

Apéndice
Atelier Van Lieshout · Kimberlee Córdova · El empleado del mes · Fran Ilich · Joshua Jobb · Gabriel Kuri ·  Augusto Marban · Federico Martínez Montoya · Cristina Ochoa y Guillermo Santamarina

This exhibition was characterized by the presence of a layer of sand in the hall which covered an indefinite number of Mexican ten-centavo coins. Visitors were invited to traverse the installation and to explore and interact with it under its own terms. The title of the installation –473.85 kg– referred to the total weight of the metal used to mint the centavos buried in the sand.

This work by LA FAVORITA Colectivo belongs to a current in which art is linked with economics: the imaginary economics to use Olav Velthuis’s term for interpretations of economic phenomena from the standpoint of contemporary art.

Artists who engage with the imaginary economics tend to pull spectators out of their usual ways of thinking and acting. By parodying or imitating economic process, they mock the modern mythology in which the economy operates. By decontextualizing it, they reveal its underlying absurdity.