Enrique Jezik: Obstruct, Destroy, Conceal

Until November 27, 2011 the MUAC in Mexico City presents the exhibition entitled Enrique Jezik: Obstruct, Destroy, Conceal. Curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, the exhibition offers a vast panoramic view of the artistic endeavor of Enrique Jezik, a leading artist in the Mexican contemporary art scene. The exhibition was divided into six sections that address concepts pertaining to the mechanisms, spaces, and operations of violence approached from the multifaceted practice of contemporary sculpture, as it invites viewers to reflect on the symbolic and technical relationships between sculpture and the mechanisms of domination. Jezik's performances, videos, and site-specific interventions¿which involve tactics that go from the use of bullets to braille writing-attest to a historical period in which the means of destruction and the technologies of control create spaces, metaphors, mechanisms, and trajectories at the service of politics. To accompany the exhibition the MUAC will publish the book Enrique Jezik: Obstruct, Destroy, Conceal, a text that offers an exhaustive compilation of the work created by the Argentine-Mexican sculptor. Coordinated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, the generously illustrated volume includes an interview with Jezik, along with philosophical, historical, and aesthetic analyses by José Luis Barrios, Néstor García-Canclini, and David Golberg. More information available at: www.muac.unam.mx