Abraham Cruzvillegas

Until March 8, 2015, Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas presents at Museo de Arte in Lima (MALI) the exhibition entitled Self-destruction 7: Untying the Knot, a special adaptation of his project Self-Construction. It is a musical proposal that revolves around a non-linear fictional story: the pre-Columbian journey of a Purépecha ancestor of the artist, from the region that is today Michoacán, in Mexico, to the territory in Peru nowadays known as the valley of Lima. The first phase of the project consisted of a collaboration by the musical groups Aeropajitas, Afrotrío, Comfuzztible, Ciudad Blues, Do Bemol, El Hombre Misterioso, Los Chapillacs, Los Protones, Moldes, Pedro Mo, Rafo Ráez & Los Paranoias, and Ysabel Omega. They composed melodies to accompany the stories by Cruzvillegas. The result of this collaboration is a CD with more than twelve songs that will be played in several points across the city of Lima, in street interventions carried out by the artist with the help of a portable sound system designed by him and produced with the help of a local artisan. The musical device will be presented in the lobby of MALI and it will be accompanied by a temporal reference room with printed and audio material that offers information on Cruzvillegas's preparatory work. Self-destruction is the title that Abraham Cruzvillegas has given to a series of projects initiated in 2012—part of a larger series titled Self-construction—in which he explores several forms of appropriation and where the stories of various characters serve to propel inquiries surrounding the construction of identity in specific places. Self-destruction 7: Untying the Knot is part of MALI in Situ, a program that invites artists from several nationalities to present works that interact with preselected spaces in the museum and outside.