Adam Smith

2008 - Installation (Installation)

Pedro Reyes

Pedro Reyes’s works traverse the worlds of art, film, architecture, design, social criticism, and pedagogy. Educated as an architect, Reyes draws on this training to engage with utopian aspirations and the ongoing legacy of Modernism, often focusing on issues of scale and space while questioning pressing social issues through the incitement of individual or collective interaction. Although only a few of his works are directly located within the practice of building, almost all involve some kind of construction, whether they are objects, models, interiors, or social spaces. Reyes also makes use of strategies developed for communication or education, as well as everyday humor, to engage his audiences. Many of his works either allow large-scale public engagement or suggest a possible use: weapons turned to shovels, multilevel parks in old modernist buildings, and small spherical rooms. Like many avant-garde thinkers of the past, Reyes constructs new forms of architecture necessary for new ways of life.

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• criticism.n.01
• modernism.n.01
• society.n.01
• everyday.s.01
• economy.n.01
• doctrine.n.01
• social action
• mexico
• violence
• political
• contemporary conceptualism
• sound art
• antiquity as subject
• chance
• contemporary diy
• mexican
• mexican contemporary artists