Combustion of a reed structure affixed to the building (luma)
Gunpowder, reeds, plastic, aluminum, steel, electronic detonator
City Hall Gallery. Puebla, Mexico
2008


Taiyana Pimentel
Eloy Hernández Reyes,
Juan Pablo Villegas
Ivan Puig

This intervention was realized at the City Hall Gallery in Puebla, Mexico; a historical monument declared a National heritage in 1987.

The work was produced with a handmade reed structure affixed to the walls of the exhibition space. To carry out the intervention, an agreement with the institution was negotiated to place the structure 50 centimeters away from a glass chandelier from the year 1536.

For this intervention, an electronic detonation of explosives was calculated to avoid inflicting damage on the property; a cloud of pink smoke caused by the explosion forced the gallery to stay completely closed for a period of time until the result could be seen.

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