I was drawn to how street vendors in Mexico City make use of everything around them — using tape as rope, tying knots in tarps weighted with stones or scraps of rubber to form temporary joints that shift from day to day in response to their needs. Through these small, improvised gestures, I began to understand the city through the everyday lives and spatial practices of those who live and work there.
In the residency studio @radio28cs, I began building my own makeshift tables instead of using the wheeled ones, setting up a stall within the workspace — a holding place for the materials and observations I bring back each day. This process has become a practice of care and adaptation: exploring ways of connection, assembling fragments, and learning from the city’s rhythms through small, improvised gestures.
The work was eventually organised into ten interrelated parts, each remaining distinct while staying in relation to the others, inspired by salsa.
In Mexico, salsa carries two meanings at once:
a dance of steps, shifts, and rhythm
a sauce made from whatever is at hand — mixed and balanced just enough
Here, it becomes a method:
to move with the city,
to adapt by touch,
to balance with borrowed parts,
to build the way a street vendor improvises.
I invited other artists in the residency studio to take part by offering each piece an instruction — a small action to be performed when walking in front of it. These instructions do not prescribe use, but introduce moments of attention, hesitation, and bodily adjustment, extending the work beyond its material form.
In the residency studio @radio28cs, I began building my own makeshift tables instead of using the wheeled ones, setting up a stall within the workspace — a holding place for the materials and observations I bring back each day. This process has become a practice of care and adaptation: exploring ways of connection, assembling fragments, and learning from the city’s rhythms through small, improvised gestures.
The work was eventually organised into ten interrelated parts, each remaining distinct while staying in relation to the others, inspired by salsa.
In Mexico, salsa carries two meanings at once:
a dance of steps, shifts, and rhythm
a sauce made from whatever is at hand — mixed and balanced just enough
Here, it becomes a method:
to move with the city,
to adapt by touch,
to balance with borrowed parts,
to build the way a street vendor improvises.
I invited other artists in the residency studio to take part by offering each piece an instruction — a small action to be performed when walking in front of it. These instructions do not prescribe use, but introduce moments of attention, hesitation, and bodily adjustment, extending the work beyond its material form.
Works & Installation Views
Piece ‘h’ was collaborated with Afsian Aguilar; I made a temporary structure that became the site for his performance.