Tercerunquinto

This Mexican artist collective explores the urban environment, questioning the laws that define the limits of public and private space. Rather than contributing to the exponential accumulation of objects, they prefer to focus on the structures that organise society by means of simple, symbolical gestures, such as laying a concrete slab or displacing a section of roadside tarmac. The “Archaeology of Rage”, the project they have chosen to show in Miami, is a polyptych comprising around fifty panels covered with the clothes that are worn by employees in charge of cleaning political graffiti off the walls of Mexico City. The signs of this expression of political protest have become abstract, however the message itself is preserved in the titles of the works. The project aims to record the memory of public anger expressed in the graffiti, which is often done in such a hurry that its message is illegible. Since 1988, Tercerunquinto’s practice has been driven by an institutional critique with architectural interventions that endeavour to reveal the expression of authority in the mechanisms governing the organisation of the public space.