Lavantamientos

Levantamientos is an archive of objects taken from the interspace between what is public and private. In México the border between public and private space is quite blurry. People are occupying streets in every possible way. They build, for instance, little “changarros”, provisional places for selling food, they close the streets from the traffic to make a sweet fifteen party, they use an empty corner to drop a ton of trash, or they put rocks or cones to reserve the parking lot in front of their house or business.

Levantamientos project takes its name from the procedure of kidnapping strategy perpetrated by the groups of organized crime. This attempt into the freedom of citizens of Cuernavaca has spread through the city in the last few years after the government declared war on narco. The problems have changed the city and took control over it little by little, transforming the space between private and public into a permanent state of curfew. People, that once were taking over space, now started to be afraid to go out after dusk.

The project document the action of kidnapping objects from the streets, that nobody was using anymore and have become a kind memory of the public space.